Ulmus glabra 'Australis'

Ulmus glabra 'Australis'
Species Ulmus glabra
Cultivar 'Australis'

Ulmus glabra 'Australis' is a Wych Elm cultivar described by Loudon in 1838,[1] from a tree in the Royal Horticultural Society garden, as U. montana var. australis Hort..[2]

Loudon's 'Australis' is not to be confused with Henry's U. campestris 'Australis', a tall southern European field elm or hybrid cultivar with an oval leaf and longer petiole.[3]

Description

Loudon said the variety had "rather smaller leaves, and a more pendulous habit, than the species", but did "not appear to be different in any other respect".

Cultivation

No specimens are known to survive, though wych elms of a similar type sometimes occur among avenue and park plantings in Edinburgh.

References

  1. Loudon, John Claudius (1838). Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum. 3. p. 1398.
  2. Green, Peter Shaw (1964). "Registration of cultivar names in Ulmus" (PDF). Arnoldia. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University. 24 (6–8): 41–80. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  3. Elwes, Henry John; Henry, Augustine (1913). The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland. 7. pp. 1904–1905.
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