Ulmus glabra 'Monstrosa'

The Wych Elm Ulmus glabra cultivar 'Monstrosa' is believed to have originated in France.

Description

The tree 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].

Cultivation

Probably extinct. 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.

Synonymy

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

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