Ulmus × hollandica 'Fjerrestad'

Ulmus × hollandica
Hybrid parentage U. glabra × U. minor
Cultivar 'Fjerrestad'
Origin Sweden

Ulmus × hollandica 'Fjerrestad' is one of a number of cultivars arising from the crossing of the Wych Elm U. glabra with a variety of Field Elm U. minor. First mentioned in Meded. Comite. Best. Iepenz. 13: 9, 1933, but without description.[1]

Description

None available.

Cultivation

No details of the clone's commercial cultivation survive. It is worth noting that all the elms in the conservation area at Fjerrestad have succumbed to Dutch elm disease. Probably extinct.

Etymology

The clone is named for the village of Fjärrestad in Skåne between Landskrona and Helsingborg, Sweden.

Hybrid cultivars

'Fjerrestad' was crossed with Ulmus × hollandica and U. minor subsp. minor in the Dutch elm breeding programme before World War II, but none of the progeny were of particular note and were discarded.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Green, P. S. (1964). Registration of cultivar names in Ulmus. Arnoldia, Vol. 24. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University.
  2. ↑ Went, J. A. (1954). The Dutch elm disease - Summary of 15 years' hybridisation and selection work (1937-1952). European Journal of Plant Pathology, Vol 60, 2, March 1954.