The elm cultivar ''Ulmus'' 'Myrtifolia', the Myrtle-leaved Elm, first appeared in nursery and horticultural lists in the 1830s, as ''Ulmus myrtifolia'' and ''Ulmus campestris myrtifolia'',
[Loudon, J. C., ''Hortus lignosus londinensis: or, A catalogue of plants ... cultivated in the gardens and grounds in the neighbourhood of London: with all their synonyms, including their French, German, and Italian names; ... To which are added ... hardy trees and shrubs in the principal nurseries of London and Edinburgh, and at Bollwyller in France, and in Hamburg'' (London, 1838), p.145](_blank)
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/ref> the name ''Ulmus myrtifolia'' Volxem being used at Kew Gardens
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from 1880.Nicholson
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in ''Kew Hand-List Trees & Shrubs'' (1896), but without description. It was later listed as a cultivar and described by Rehder in 1939Kew
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was considered by Melville to be a probable ''U. minor'' × ''Ulmus minor'' 'Plotii' hybrid.
Description
'Myrtifolia' was described as having leaves ovate or rhombic-ovate to oblong-ovate, 2–5 cm long with nearly simple teeth, loosely pilose on both sides. The petiole is 2 to 4 mm long, and the samara
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is 12 to 15 mm long.
Cultivation
A 'Mytifolia' was present in North Road, Bath
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in 1902.Arnold Arboretum
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in the mid-20th century, sourced in the 1920s from a tree in Cleveland
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, Ohio.
Synonymy
*''Ulmus campestris (: minor)'' var. ''myrtifolia'' Hort.: Nicholson, in ''Kew Hand-List Trees & Shrubs'' 2: 135, 1896.
*''Ulmus buxifolia'' Hort.: Nicholson, ''Kew Hand-List Trees & Shrubs'' 2: 135, 1896, in synonymy.
*''Ulmus procera'' var. ''myrtifolia'': Bean (1934)[Bean, W. J., ''Kew Hand-list of Trees and Shrubs'', 1934, p.341]
*''Ulmus procera'' f. ''myrtifolia'': Rehder (1939)
References
External links
''Ulmus'' Myrtifolia, systematics.mortonarb.org
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