Biology:Ulmus minor 'Viminalis Incisa'

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Ulmus minor 'Viminalis Incisa'
SpeciesUlmus minor
Cultivar'Incisa'

The Field Elm cultivar Ulmus minor 'Viminalis Incisa' was listed and described by John Frederick Wood, F.H.S., in The Midland Florist and Suburban Horticulturist (1851), along with what he called U. Viminalis and U. Viminalis Variegata, as U. Viminalis Incisa, the Cut-leaved Twiggy-branched elm.[1] An Ulmus campestris var. nuda subvar. incisa Hort.Vilv. was described by Wesmael in 1863,[2] and considered by Green (1964) to be possibly one of Melville's U. × viminalis.[3]

Description

Wood (1851) described 'Viminalis Incisa' as less compact in habit than U. Viminalis and U. Viminalis Variegata, but nevertheless erect, with slender rod-like branches and more serrated foliage. Wesmael's 'Incisa' (1863) had leaves irregularly sinuate-incised, with long pointed teeth.[4]

Pests and diseases

Trees of the U. minor 'Viminalis' group are very susceptible to Dutch elm disease.

Cultivation

No specimens so labelled are known to survive.

References

  1. Wood, John Frederick (1852). "Coppiceana". The Midland Florist and Suburban Horticulturist (London) 6: 365. https://books.google.com/books?id=4j5OAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA365. 
  2. Wesmael, Alfred (1862). "Bulletin de la Fédération des sociétés d'horticulture de Belgique". pp. 389. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044103102810?urlappend=%3Bseq=399. 
  3. Green, Peter Shaw (1964). "Registration of cultivar names in Ulmus". Arnoldia (Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University) 24 (6–8): 41–80. https://archive.org/stream/arnoldiaarno_21#page/40/mode/2up/. Retrieved 16 February 2017. 
  4. Green, 1964, p.63