Cultivar 'Rugosa' People also search for Ulmus 'Nigrescens' | Origin Europe | |
The Wych Elm cultivar Ulmus glabra 'Rugosa' was first listed in Audibert's Tonelle (1817), as "U. campestris Linn. 'Rugosa' = orme d'Avignon (new species)", but without description. Green identified this cultivar with one listed by Hartwig and Rümpler in Illustrirtes Gehölzbuch (1875) as Ulmus montana (:glabra) var. rugosa .
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A cultivar of the same name appeared in Loddiges' catalogue of 1836 and was identified by Loudon in Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum (1838) as Ulmus montana (: glabra) var. rugosa Masters; Masters accorded the tree the common name of Maple-bark Elm.
The above cultivars may be distinct from one distributed by the Späth nursery, Berlin, in the 1890s and early 1900s as U. campestris rugosa.
Description
The 'Rugosa' of Hartwig and Rümpler was described as having somewhat folded leaves, and being pyramidal, thick and bushy.
Loudon described his Wych Elm cultivar 'Rugosa' as having "dark, reddish-brown bark, cracking into short, regular pieces, very like Acer campestre; a tree of spreading growth and moderate size."
Pests and diseases
Not known.
Cultivation
Loudon considered a tree labelled U. montana rugosa in the London Horticultural Society's Garden, with upright form and smaller, rougher leaves of a deeper green than those of wych elm, "probably not the U. montana rugosa of Mr. Masters".