| Ulmus × hollandica | |
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| Details | |
| Hybrid parentage | U. glabra × U. minor |
| Cultivar | 'Hillieri' |
| Origin | Winchester, England |
The cultivar Ulmus × hollandica 'Hillieri' arose from a chance seedling at Hillier's Pitt Corner nursery near Winchester, England, in 1918. It is a pendulous cultivar, not to be confused with Ulmus × hollandica 'Jacqueline Hillier', which also has a shrubby habit.
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'Hillieri' was a graceful, compact, slow-growing miniature tree rarely > 1.2 m in height, bearing weeping branches. The small leaves turned crimson and yellow in favourable autumns [1].
Probably extinct.