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Smooth-leaved Elm (Ulmus minor subsp. minor), and Field Elm (Ulmus minor) cultivars other than English Elm, are not as common in Australia as other species. The Silver Elm ( U. minor 'Variegata') is the most commonly seen variety of this species, particularly in older botanic gardens and parks.
An Ulmus medio argentea variegata, "a pretty silver-variegated variety", probably Silver Elm, appeared in early 20th-century nursery catalogues in Australia. [16] Silver Elm remains in commercial cultivation in Europe , and is commonly cultivated in Australasia and North America, where a number of mature specimens survive (see under Accessions).
The Wych Elm cultivar Ulmus glabra 'Horizontalis', commonly known as the Weeping Wych Elm or Horizontal Elm, was discovered in a Perth nursery circa 1816. The tree was originally identified as 'Pendula' by Loddiges (London), in his catalogue of 1836, a name adopted by Loudon two years later in Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum, 3: 1398, 1838, but later sunk as a synonym for 'Horizontalis'.
Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus Ulmus in the family Ulmaceae.They are distributed over most of the Northern Hemisphere, inhabiting the temperate and tropical-montane regions of North America and Eurasia, presently ranging southward in the Middle East to Lebanon and Israel, [1] and across the Equator in the Far East into Indonesia.
Wych elm was widely planted in Edinburgh in the 19th century as a park and avenue tree, and despite losses, it remains abundant there, regenerating through seedlings. [33] [5] It was introduced to New England in the 18th century, [34] to Canada (as U. montana at the Dominion Arboretum, Ottawa) [35] [36] and Australia in the 19th century. [37]
Ulmus Wredei aurea was introduced to Australia in the early 20th century. [11] ' Wredei' is currently one of the most popular elms on sale in Europe owing to its colourful foliage and modest size. For the 'Golden Elm' at Great Dixter Gardens, Northiam, East Sussex, [ 12 ] apparently miscalled 'Dampieri Aurea' by the horticulturalist Christopher ...
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Ulmus laevis Pall., variously known as the European white elm, [2] fluttering elm, spreading elm, stately elm and, in the United States, the Russian elm, is a large deciduous tree native to Europe, from France [3] northeast to southern Finland, east beyond the Urals into Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, and southeast to Bulgaria and the Crimea; there are also disjunct populations in the Caucasus and ...