Ulmus 'Stavast'

Infobox Cultivar | name = "Ulmus" hybrid
hybrid = 'Commelin' × ('Exoniensis' × "U. wallichiana")
cultivar = 'Stavast'
origin = Netherlands The hybrid elm cultivar 'Stavast' was raised at Wageningen in the Netherlands as clone no. 622 by hybridizing 'Commelin' with clone no. 202, a cross between the Exeter Elm "U. glabra" 'Exoniensis' and the Himalayan Elm "Ulmus wallichiana".

Description

Not available.

Pests and diseases

'Stavast' has a resistance to Dutch elm disease.

Cultivation

'Stavast' was not commercially released in its own right, but retained as a rootstock for grafting as its dense root system quickly endowed young trees with a considerable stability.Heybroek, H. M. (1993). The Dutch Elm Breeding Program. In Sticklen & Sherald (Eds.) (1993). "Dutch Elm Disease Research", Chapter 3. Springer Verlag, New York, USA.] A number of 'Stavast' trees were exported to New Zealand for use in trials at the Hortresearch station at Palmerston North in the 1990s.

Etymology

The name 'Stavast' is Dutch for "a resolute man".

Accessions

Not known.

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