Australis (elm hybrid)

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U. x hollandica 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". Other authorities have considered it to be a variety of U. procera or U. minor.

It is not known whether the tree remains in cultivation.

[edit] Synonymy

Italica: Henry, in Elwes, H. J. & Henry, A. (1913). The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. VII. pp 1848-1929.

[edit] References

Green, P. S. (1964). Registration of cultivar names in Ulmus. Arnoldia, Vol. 24. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University. [1]
Hilliers' Manual of Trees & Shrubs. (1977). David & Charles, Newton Abbot, UK.