Cultivar 'Urticifolia' | Origin France | |
The European White Elm cultivar Ulmus laevis 'Urticifolia' known as the Nettle Leaved Elm was raised by Jacques [2] as a chance seedling in 1830, and propagated by grafting. Listed in Revue Horticole 2: 128, 1832 as U. urticifolia. It was later mentioned by de Vries in Plant Breeding, 1906.
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Description
The tree was described as having deeply toothed leaves, the teeth unequal and very pointed.
Cultivation
No specimens are known to survive; the tree was never grown in the UK.
Accessions
Not known.
References
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