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Ulmus × viminalis 'Stricta' (:'narrow') is believed to be a hybrid cultivar derived from the crossing U. minor × U. minor 'Plotii'. It was listed as Ulmus campestris var. stricta by Audibert (1817). A herbarium specimen at Kew was considered by Melville a form of U. × viminalis.
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Description
A tree of narrow and "very rigid" growth. Herbarium leaf-specimens show a leaf resembling that of the type tree, 'Viminalis' (see External links below).
Pests and diseases
Trees of the U. × viminalis group are very susceptible to Dutch elm disease.
Cultivation
No specimens are known to survive, though trees identified as U. × viminalis and matching the form of 'Stricta' occur in East Anglia.
Notable trees
A fine specimen noted by Henry at Milton Abbey, Dorsetshire, in 1913 of what he called U. campestris var. viminalis, which "resembled in habit the Cornish elm", may have been a form of U. × viminalis similar to 'Stricta'.