Ulmus 'Berardii'

Infobox Cultivar | name = "Ulmus"
cultivar = 'Berardii'
origin = Metz, FranceThe cultivar 'Berardii' was raised from seeds collected by Simon-Louis from large trees growing on the ramparts at Metz. As with 'Koopmannii', 'Berardii' is treated in some east European treatises as a cultivar of the Siberian Elm "Ulmus pumila". Green, who had examined dried specimens of the plant, also considered it "as possibly a form of "U. pumila" Green, P. S. (1964). Registration of cultivar names in Ulmus. "Arnoldia", Vol. 24. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University. [http://arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.edu/pdf/articles/1605.pdf] ] .

Description

'Berardii' made a small tree or shrub, with minute, glabrous leaves 12 mm - 18 mm long, deeply incised by relatively few teeth.

Cultivation

A specimen was once grown at Kew Gardens, obtained from the Späth nursery before the First World War Elwes, H. J. & Henry, A. (1913). "The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland". Vol. VII. pp 1848-1929. Private publication, Edinburgh. [http://fax.libs.uga.edu/QK488xE4/7tgbi/] ] , but the tree is not known to remain in cultivation, although similar small-leaved trees have been recorded from the south Essex coast in England to eastern France.

ynonymy

*"Ulmus berardii": Simon-Louis Catalogue, 1869, p. 96. fig. 7.

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