Ulmus 'Australis'


The elm cultivar Ulmus 'Australis' , reputedly endemic to south-eastern France, Switzerland and Italy, is a little-known tree considered by various authorities to have been a variety of Ulmus minor or Ulmus × hollandica.
'Australis' is not to be confused with Loudon's U. glabra 'Australis', a variety of Wych Elm.

Description

The tree is distinguished by its conspicuously and numerously veined oval leathery leaves measuring to in length by to in width and with a petiole up to long.

Cultivation

described lines of the trees along the Cours-la-Reine in Rouen planted in 1649 by the Duc de Longueville; several of which were still alive in 1912, having attained a height of about. Henry also mentions specimens growing in botanical gardens at Le Mans and Bordeaux, and others growing as far south as Spizza in Dalmatia. 'Australis' is not known to survive in cultivation.

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