Biology:Ulmus 'Planifolia'

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Short description: Elm cultivar


Ulmus 'Planifolia'
Ulmus planifolia. The flat-leaved Elm. p.234.jpg
Ulmus planifolia
GenusUlmus
Cultivar'Planifolia'
OriginEngland

The possible Field Elm cultivar U. minor 'Planifolia' was listed by Loudon in Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum (1838) as Ulmus campestris (:minor) var. planifolia, the flat-leaved elm.[1] Green opined that the species was uncertain.[2]

Description

Loudon described the tree as "a handsome small tree, closely resembling U. campestris var. parvifolia" (i.e. the Chinese Elm Ulmus parvifolia Jacq.). An illustration appeared in volume 7 of Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum (1854).

Cultivation

'Planifolia' and 'Cucullata' were the only two of some sixty elms listed by Joseph Paxton in his Botanical Dictionary (1868) without cultivation locations, suggesting it was an uncommon elm.[3] No specimens are known to survive.

References

  1. Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum, 3: 1377, 1838
  2. 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. 
  3. Paxton, Joseph (1868). Paxton's Botanical dictionary. London. pp. 572–573. https://archive.org/stream/cu31924001341662#page/n587/mode/2up. Retrieved 24 January 2018.