Ulmus minor 'Atinia Variegata'
| Ulmus minor | |
|---|---|
| Cultivar | 'Atinia-Variegata' |
| Origin | England |
The English Elm cultivar Ulmus minor 'Atinia Variegata', the variegated English elm, formerly known as U. procera 'Argenteo-Variegata',[1] is believed to have originated in England in the seventeenth century[2] and to have been cultivated since the eighteenth.[1] The Oxford botanist Robert Plot mentioned in a 1677 Flora a variegated elm in Dorset, where English Elm is the common field elm. Elwes and Henry (1913) had no doubt that the cultivar was of English origin, "as it agrees with the English Elm in all its essential characters".[3]
Variegated English elm is not be confused with the more common Field Elm cultivar U. minor 'Argenteo-Variegata', also known as U. minor 'Variegata', the silver elm or tartan elm, which has similar markings but narrower leaves.
Description
The tree was described by Weston in Bot. Univ. 1 : 314 1770 (as U. campestris argenteo-var.) as having leaves striped, spotted and margined with white.[4][5][6] The photograph in Krüssman (1984) of a specimen in Schönaich-Carolath Park, Hamburg, shows the typical, almost orbicular leaves of English elm, but variegated.[7] In other respects the form of the tree is similar to the type.[8] The tree, which is the only variegated English Elm in cultivation, sometimes produces variegated suckers.[9][1]
Pests and diseases
'Atinia Variegata' is vulnerable to Dutch elm disease.
Cultivation
'Atinia Variegata' has been in commerce since the 18th century.[1] The tree remains in cultivation in the UK,[10] USA, and Australia.
Notable trees
Gerald Wilkinson reported that "great specimens" of variegated English elm could still be seen in the early 1970s at Kew, at Kenwood (near the West Gate), and in many large gardens.[8] The Kenwood specimen seen by Wilkinson may have been the same tree noted there by Augustine Henry, measuring 75 feet in 1909.
Synonymy
Accessions
- North America
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden , New York. Acc. no. 910507.
- Europe
- Grange Farm Arboretum, Sutton St James, Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK. As U. minor 'Argenteovariegata'. Whips planted 2011. Acc. no. 1077.
- Hergest Croft Gardens, Kington, Herefordshire, UK. One tree, no details available.
Nurseries
- North America
- Foothills Nursery , Mt. Airy, North Carolina.
- ForestFarm , Williams, Oregon.
- Europe
- Dulford Nurseries , Cullompton, Devon, UK.
- Goscote Nurseries Ltd. , Cossington, Leics., UK.
- Madrona Nursery , Bethersden, Kent, UK.
- Australasia
References
- 1 2 3 4 Bean, W. J. (1988) Trees and shrubs hardy in Great Britain, 8th edition, Murray, London, p.654
- ↑ Green, P. S. (1964). Registration of cultivar names in Ulmus. Arnoldia, Vol. 24. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University.
- ↑ Elwes, H. J. & Henry, A. (1913). The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. VII. p.1905. Private publication, Edinburgh. The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland
- ↑ Green, P. S. (1964). Registration of cultivar names in Ulmus. Arnoldia, Vol. 24. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University.
- ↑ Krüssmann, J.G. (1958) in Parey's Blumengartn. ed. 2, 1: 519, 1958.
- ↑ Photograph of 'Argenteo-Variegata' leaves in Gerald Wilkinson, Epitaph for the Elm, Hutchinson, London 1978, p.67 (ISBN 0099212803 / 0-09-921280-3)
- ↑ Krüssman, Gerd, Manual of Cultivated Broad-Leaved Trees & Shrubs (1984 vol. 3)
- 1 2 Wilkinson, Gerald, Epitaph for the Elm, p.65
- ↑ Elwes & Henry (1913). The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. VII. p.1905
- ↑ U. procera 'Argenteo-Variegata', RHS, rhs.org.uk/plants/nurseries-search-result?ID=76706#