Ulmus 'Berardii'

Ulmus
Cultivar	'Berardii'
Origin	Metz, France

The elm cultivar Ulmus '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 north Eurasian 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".^[1]

Description

'Berardii' made a small tree or shrub, with minute, glabrous leaves 12–18 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,^[2] 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.

Synonymy

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

References

1. Green, P. S. (1964). Registration of cultivar names in Ulmus. Arnoldia, Vol. 24. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University.
2. Elwes, H. J. & Henry, A. (1913). The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. VII. 1848–1929. Private publication, Edinburgh. Republished by Cambridge University Press, 2004.