Australis (Wych elm cultivar)

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U. glabra Australis is a little-known tree distinguished by its conspicuously and numerously veined leathery leaves. Reputedly endemic to south-eastern France, Switzerland and Italy, it was treated as U. montana (: glabra) var. australis Hort. by Loudon, who described it as having "rather small leaves and a more pendulous habit".

Henry (Elwes & Henry, 1913) describes lines of the trees along the Cours-la-Reine in Rouen planted in 1649 by the Duc de Longueville; several of which were still alive in 1912, having attained a height of about 28 m. Henry also mentions specimens growing in botanical gardens at Le Mans and Bordeaux, and others growing as far south as Spizza in Dalmatia (now Croatia).

Australis is not known to be in cultivation in the UK, North America or Australasia.

[edit] Synonymy

Australis: Henry, in Elwes, H. J. & Henry, A. (1913). The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. VII. pp 1848-1929, as U. campestris (: procera Salisb.) var. australis.
Australis: Hilliers' Manual of Trees & Shrubs, ed. 4, p. 400, 1977, as U. × hollandica Australis, as a cultivar, name in synonymy.
Australis: Loudon, Arb. Frut. Brit. 3: 1398 1838, as U. montana (: glabra) var. australis Hort.
Italica: Hilliers' Manual of Trees & Shrubs, ed. 4, p. 400, 1977, as U. × minor Italica, as a cultivar, name in synonymy.

[edit] References

Elwes, H. J. & Henry, A. (1913). The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. VII. pp 1848-1929. Private publication. [1]
Green, P. S. (1964). Registration of cultivar names in Ulmus. Arnoldia, Vol. 24. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University. [2]
Hilliers' Manual of Trees & Shrubs. (1977). David & Charles, Newton Abbot, UK.