Ulmus minor 'Picturata'

Field Elm cultivar
Ulmus minor 'Picturata'
SpeciesUlmus minor
Cultivar'Picturata'
OriginEngland

The Field Elm cultivar Ulmus minor 'Picturata' (:decorated with colour) was listed in the 1880 catalogue of Simon-Louis (Metz, France), as Ulmus picturata Cripps,[1] suggesting an English origin in the nursery of Thomas Cripps of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, who marketed elm cultivars in the 1860s.[2] Clibrans' nursery of Altrincham, Cheshire, marketed it in the early 20th century as Ulmus campestris picturata variegata, their Ulmus campestris being English Elm.[3][4] Elwes and Henry (1913) placed it under English Elm cultivars.[5]

Description

Henry said that the tree did not appear to differ much from variegated English Elm, except in having larger leaves.[5][6] The Gembrook or Nobelius Nursery near Melbourne, Australia, mentioned its "very pretty, large variegated foliage".[7]

Cultivation

No specimens are known to survive. There was a small specimen at Kew Gardens in the early 20th century.[5] A 'Picturata' was marketed in the early 20th century by the former Gembrook Nursery near Melbourne, Australia. It is not known whether a variegated field elm distinct from variegated English – or from Ulmus minor 'Argenteo-Variegata', Silver Elm – survives there. An Ulmus campestris picturata variegata, "Variegated English Elm", was marketed by the Klehm nursery of Arlington Heights, Illinois, at the same period, listed separately from Ulmus campestris media variegata argenta, "Silver variegated English Elm" (probably Ulmus minor 'Variegata' by the description in the 1916 catalogue;[8] the nursery used Ulmus campestris for all non-American elms).[9]

Synonymy

  • Ulmus campestris f. fol. picturatis: Dippel, Illustriertes Handbuch der Laubholzkunde, 2:25, 1892, described as having leaves spotted white.
  • Ulmus campestris picturata variegata[3]

References

  1. ^ Simon-Louis, cat.1880,  p.66
  2. ^ Gardener's Chronicle & New Horticulturist, London 1868, p.92.
  3. ^ a b Clibrans Ltd., Ornamental Trees Shrubs & Climbers, cat. 269, Altrincham, 1908-09, p.27
  4. ^ Clibrans Ltd. (1921). Ornamental Trees Shrubs & Climbers. Vol. Season: 1921-22. Altrincham, Cheshire, UK: Clibrans. p. 15.
  5. ^ a b c Elwes, Henry John; Henry, Augustine (1913). The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. 7. p. 1905.
  6. ^ Green, Peter Shaw (1964). "Registration of cultivar names in Ulmus". Arnoldia. 24 (6–8). Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University: 41–80. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  7. ^ Gembrook or Nobelius Nursery, Melbourne, 1918 catalogue
  8. ^ Klehm's Nurseries, Arlington Heights, Illinois, c.1916, p.24
  9. ^ Klehm's Nurseries, Season of 1910, Arlington Heights, Illinois, 1910, p.13
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Species, varieties and subspecies
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