Ulmus × hollandica 'Hillieri'

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Ulmus × hollandica
Hybrid parentage
U. glabra × U. minor
Cultivar
'Hillieri'
Origin
Europe

The hybrid Ulmus × hollandica cultivar 'Hillieri' arose from a chance seedling at Hillier's Pitt Corner nursery near Winchester, England, in 1918. It was a graceful, compact, slow-growing miniature tree or shrub, with weeping branches, rarely exceeding 1.2 m in height. The small leaves turned crimson and yellow in favourable autumns ^[1]. It is not known whether the tree remains in cultivation.

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• Ulmus hillieri Hort.: Hillier & Sons, (Winchester, England), Cat. 38T, p. 52, 1928.

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