The

elm Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus ''Ulmus'' in the family Ulmaceae. They are distributed over most of the Northern Hemisphere, inhabiting the temperate and tropical- montane regions of North America and Eurasia, ...

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''Ulmus'' 'Fastigiata Glabra' was distributed by the

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, Berlin, in the 1890s and early 1900s as ''U. montana fastigiata glabra''. Späth used ''U. montana'' both for cultivars of

wych elm ''Ulmus glabra'', the wych elm or Scots elm, has the widest range of the European elm species, from Ireland eastwards to the Ural Mountains, and from the Arctic Circle south to the mountains of the Peloponnese and Sicily, where the species reac ...

and for those of some ''U.'' × ''hollandica''

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s like 'Dampieri'. A specimen of ''U. montana fastigiata glabra'' in the

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was determined by Melville in 1958 as a

of the ''U.'' × ''hollandica'' group.

Description

Späth's name implies that when young, at least, the tree had an upright form and smooth leaves. File:EDIN-BG-1989-06.B.jpg, Bark of C2715, Edinburgh (see 'Cultivation')

Pests and diseases

Not known. Some examples of the ''U.'' × ''hollandica'' group possess a moderate resistance to Dutch elm disease.

Cultivation

One tree supplied by Späth was planted in 1898 as ''U. montana fastigiata glabra'' at the

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. Three were supplied to the

in 1902. One, in the Garden proper (tree C2715), was relabelled by Melville in 1958 ''U. glabra'' Huds. × ''U. carpinifolia'' ''U. minor'' ">Field_Elm.html" ;"title="Field Elm">''U. minor'' × ''U. plotii'' ''U. minor'' 'Plotii' ">Plot's Elm">''U. minor'' 'Plotii' Sheet described as ''U. montana fastigiata glabra'', RBGE specimen 1 from

, 1902; Sheet described as ''U. montana fastigiata glabra'', RBGE specimen 2 from

, 1902RBGE Cultivated Herbarium Accessions Book: October 1958 notes by Ronald Melville on specimen C2715, area G3 it survived till the 1990s. Others may survive in Edinburgh, as it was the practice of the Garden to distribute trees about the city (viz. the Ulmus 'Wentworthii'">Wentworth Elm); the current list of Living Accessions held in the Garden ''per se'' does not list the plant.

Putative specimen

An old glabrous-leaved hybrid elm in a more exposed position on The Mound, Edinburgh (2020), appears to match the 1958 RBGE herbarium leaf-specimen of ''U. montana fastigiata glabra'' (see 'External links' below) and may be a more spreading example of the cultivar. File:Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. (1902). Accessions book pages 45,47.jpg, Pages from the RBGE Accessions Book (1902) listing ''U. montana fastigiata glabra'' File:Ulmus (possibly x hollandica). The Mound, Edinburgh (3).jpg, The Mound elm, Edinburgh File:Ulmus (possibly x hollandica). The Mound, Edinburgh (1).jpg, Foliage of same File:Ulmus (possibly x hollandica). The Mound, Edinburgh (4).jpg, Branching File:Ulmus (possibly x hollandica). The Mound, Edinburgh (2).jpg, Bole

Accessions

North America

, Canada. Accession no. 2602

Europe

None known.

References

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