Ulmus glabra 'Australis'

Ulmus glabra 'Australis'
SpeciesUlmus glabra
Cultivar'Australis'
OriginEngland

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".

Pests and diseases

See under Ulmus glabra.

Cultivation

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

  • Small-leaved, rather pendulous wych, King's Stables Road, Edinburgh
    Small-leaved, rather pendulous wych, King's Stables Road, Edinburgh
  • Leaves of same, from Castle Terrace
    Leaves of same, from Castle Terrace
  • Foliage
    Foliage
  • Smallish samarae
    Smallish samarae

References

  1. ^ Loudon, John Claudius (1838). Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum. Vol. 3. p. 1398.
  2. ^ Green, Peter Shaw (1964). "Registration of cultivar names in Ulmus". Arnoldia. 24 (6–8). Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University: 41–80. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  3. ^ Elwes, Henry John; Henry, Augustine (1913). The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. 7. pp. 1904–1905.