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Ulmus × viminalis 'Aurea'

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Cultivar
  
'Aurea'

Origin
  
Louvain, Belgium

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Hybrid parentage
  
U. minor × U. minor 'Plotii'

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Ulmus × viminalis 'Aurea' is a hybrid cultivar derived from the crossing U. minor × U. minor 'Plotii' raised before 1866 by Rosseel of Louvain.

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Description

The tree is distinguished by its suffused golden yellow leaves in early summer, greening as the season progresses.

Pests and diseases

'Aurea' is very susceptible to Dutch elm disease.

Cultivation

Only two specimens are known (2016) to survive in the UK, a stunted tree at Borde Hill, West Sussex. and a small tree (2016) at Grange Farm Arboretum (see Accessions). Three specimens were supplied by the Späth nursery to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1902 as U. antarctica aurea, and may possibly survive in Edinburgh as it was the practice of the Garden to distribute trees about the city (viz. the Wentworth Elm). The current list of Living Accessions held in the Garden per se does not list the plant. Others are known in Europe and Australasia (see Accessions).

Synonymy

  • Ulmus campestris var. antarctica aurea: Nicholson, Kew Hand List Trees & Shrubs, ii, 613, 1902.
  • Ulmus campestris var. aurea: Morren: La Belgique horticole, p. 356, 1866, (coloured plate), and Lemaire: L'Illustration horticole t 513, 1867.
  • Ulmus campestris var. Rosscelsii: Schelle, in Beissner et al., Handbuch der Laubholz-Benennung 83. 1903, = misspelling of Rosseelsii.
  • Ulmus rosseelsii: Koch, Dendrologie; Bäume, Sträucher und Halbsträucher, welche in Mittel- und Nord- Europa im Freien kultivirt werden 2 (1): 412, 1872, in synonymy.

    • Accessions

    North America

    None known.

    Europe
  • Grange Farm Arboretum, Sutton St James, Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK. Acc. no. 1102.
  • University of Copenhagen Botanic Garden, (as Ulmus procera 'Viminalis Aurea').
    • Australasia
  • Waite Arboretum [1], University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

    • Nurseries

    North America
  • ForestFarm Nurseries [2], Williams, Oregon.
    • Europe
  • Arboretum Waasland [3], Nieuwkerken-Waas, Belgium.
  • Czeczot Krzewy [4], Bogumiłowice, Poland.
  • Szkółka Krzewów Ozdobnych [5], Bielsko-Biała, Poland.
  • Szkółki Konieczko [6], Gogolin, Poland.

    • References

    Ulmus × viminalis 'Aurea' Wikipedia
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