Ulmus minor subsp. minor 'Variegata'

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Ulmus minor subsp. minor

Cultivar
'Variegata'
Origin
Europe

The Variegated Smooth-leaved Elm, Ulmus minor subsp. minor 'Variegata' is a variegated elm cultivar. Its foliage is randomly blotched and speckled with creamy white, the colour of the leaves on the same tree ranging from almost completely cream to totally green ^[1]. It was first described by Wesmael [1] in Bull. Fed. Soc. Hort. Belg. 1862: 390, 1863 ^[2].

1 Arboreta etc. accessions
2 Nurseries
3 Synonymy
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Arboreta etc. accessions

[edit] North America

Morton Arboretum acc. nos. 450-48, 588-54

[edit] Europe

Hortus Botanicus Nationalis, Salaspils, Latvia acc. no. 18143 (acknowledged as possibly U. minor 'Albo-dentata').

[edit] Australasia

Benalla Botanic Gardens, Victoria, Australia. Accession details not known.
Eastwoodhill Arboretum [2], Gisborne, New Zealand, 22 trees, details not known.

leaves

[edit] Nurseries

[edit] North America

None known.

[edit] Europe

(Widely available)

[edit] Australasia

Fleming's Nursery [3], Monbulk, Victoria, Australia (as 'Silver Elm').

[edit] Synonymy

Ulmus folio glabro, eleganter variegato: Miller, Gard. Dict. ed. 6, Ulmus no. 9, 1752.
?Ulmus campestris foliis argenteis: Baudriller, (Angers, France), Catalogue 43, p. 116, 1880.
Ulmus campestris foliis variegatis: Loddiges, (Hackney, London), Catalogue 1820, p. 35, and by Loudon in Arb. Frut. Brit. 3: 1395, 1838.
Ulmus campestris punctata: Simon-Louis Nurseries, (Metz, France), Catalogue, 1886-87, p. 60.
Ulmus campestris var. suberosa variegata Hort.: Hartwig & Rümpler, Ill. Geholzb. 579, 1875.

[edit] References

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