Ulmus × hollandica 'Hillieri'

Ulmus × hollandica
Hybrid parentage U. glabra × U. minor
Cultivar 'Hillieri'
Origin Winchester, England

The hybrid elm cultivar Ulmus × hollandica 'Hillieri' arose from a chance seedling at Hillier's Pitt Corner nursery near Winchester, England, in 1918. It is a pendulous cultivar, not to be confused with Ulmus × hollandica 'Jacqueline Hillier', which also has a shrubby habit.

Description

'Hillieri' was a graceful, compact, slow-growing miniature tree rarely > 1.2 m in height, bearing weeping branches. The small leaves turned crimson and yellow in favourable autumns.[1]

Cultivation

Probably extinct.

Synonymy

References

  1. Hilliers' Manual of Trees & Shrubs. (1977). David & Charles, Newton Abbot, UK.
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