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The Wych elm cultivar Ulmus glabra 'Fastigiata' was listed in Graf von Schwerin's Mitteilungen der Deutschen Dendrologischen Gesellschaft (1915) and appears in Botanic Gardens Conservation International lists. It is possibly synonymous with Bean's (1925) U. glabra 'Fastigiata Stricta', and appears to be a similar cultivar to Ulmus glabra 'Insularis'. ) 'Fastigiata' is not to be confused with Exeter Elm, the U. montana fastigiata of Loudon's Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum, 3: 1399 (1838) and the U. montana var. fastigiata of Elwes and Henry, which has contorted leaves.
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Description
The tree is a form of Wych Elm with upswept branches, similar in profile when young to American Elm.
Pests and diseases
See under Ulmus glabra.
Cultivation
Wych elms fastigiate when young but broadening with age are not uncommon in the tree's native range, and some of these have been cultivated. A clone called U. glabra fastigiata was cultivated in Silesia by the Berndt Nursery, Zirlau, Schweidnitz, in the early 20th century. Specimens of a cultivar called U. montana fastigiata supplied by the Späth nursery to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1902 may 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. Catalogue evidence from the Späth nursery, however, suggests that the U. montana fastigiata supplied to RBGE may have been Exeter Elms.