Ulmus pumila 'Ansaloni'

Infobox Cultivar | name = "Ulmus pumila"
cultivar = 'Ansaloni'
origin = ItalyThe Siberian Elm "Ulmus pumila" cultivar 'Ansaloni' was raised by the Ansaloni Nurseries [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.ansalonigardencenter.it/history/contents.html&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=3&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DAnsaloni%2BBologna%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG] , Bologna, circa 1935, from a tree introduced from the Far East in 1930.

Desccription

'Ansaloni' is a quick-growing variety with a compact crown, holding its leaves well into autumn 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] ] .

Pests and diseases

See under "Ulmus pumila".

Cultivation

The tree was sold mostly to winegrowers in the Po valley still using traditional Roman cultivation methods after the Second World War, but the advent of mechanization in the 1950s brought about the tree's decline, and it had been withdrawn from sale by the 1970s. Only one specimen, in North America, is known to remain in cultivation.

ynonymy

*'Siber-Ansaloni': Ansaloni Nurseries, Bologna, Italy, Catalogue, 1946-47, p. 28.

Accessions

North America

*Arnold Arboretum, acc. no. 636-61.

Europe

None known

References