Hybrid parentage U. glabra × U. minor Origin Winchester, England | Cultivar 'Hillieri' | |
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The hybrid elm cultivar Ulmus × hollandica 'Hillieri' arose from a chance seedling at Hillier's Pitt Corner nursery near Winchester, England, in 1918. It is a pendulous cultivar, not to be confused with Ulmus × hollandica 'Jacqueline Hillier', which also has a shrubby habit.
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Description
'Hillieri' was a graceful, compact, slow-growing miniature tree rarely > 1.2 m in height, bearing weeping branches. The small leaves turned crimson and yellow in favourable autumns.
Cultivation
A tree cultivated in Denmark as Ulmus × hollandica 'Hillieri' or Dukke-elm (:Doll's elm) appears from photographs to be U. × hollandica 'Jacqueline Hillier'.
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Ulmus × hollandica 'Hillieri' Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA