Ulmus glabra 'Monstrosa'

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Ulmus glabra
Cultivar
'Monstrosa'
Origin
Europe

The Wych Elm Ulmus glabra cultivar 'Monstrosa' was described as a compact shrub; branchlets often fasciated, with leaves 5 cm to 8 cm long, partly pitcher-shaped at the base, and on slender stalks < 25 mm long [1]. A specimen at the Ryston Hall [2], Norfolk, arboretum, obtained from the Späth nursery in Berlin before 1914 [2], was killed by the earlier strain of Dutch elm disease prevalent in the 1930s. It is currently listed only in Czech literature.

[edit] Synonymy

  • Ulmus campestris (: glabra) var. monstrosa: Lavallée, Arb. Segrez 235, 1877, as Hartwig, Ill. Geholzb. ed. 2, 294, 1892.
  • Ulmus scabra (: glabra) var. monstrosa Hort.; Krüssmann, Handb. Laubgeh. 2: 536, 1962, as a cultivar.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Green, P. S. (1964). Registration of cultivar names in Ulmus. Arnoldia, Vol. 24. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University. [1]
  2. ^ Ryston Hall Arboretum catalogue, circa 1920