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Elm
Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus ''Ulmus'' in the family Ulmaceae. They are distributed over most of the Northern Hemisphere, inhabiting the temperate and tropical- montane regions of North America and Eurasia, ...
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''Ulmus'' 'Tiliaefolia' was first mentioned by
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in ''Flora Austriaca'' (1827), as ''Ulmus tiliaefolia''
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''U. montana'' hybrid nor a field elm">Späth nursery of Berlin distributed a 'Tiliaefolia' from the late 19th century to the 1930s as neither an Ulmus × hollandica">''U. montana'' hybrid nor a field elm (''U. campestris'') cultivar, but simply as ''Ulmus tiliaefolia'', suggesting uncertainty about its status.
Herbarium specimens appear to show two clones, one smaller-leaved and classified as a field elm cultivar, the other larger-leaved.
Description
The tree was said to have
ovate
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and not usually strongly oblique at the base.
Host said the leaf was biserrate. The catalogue of the
and not usually strongly oblique at the base.
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Host said the leaf was biserrate. The catalogue of the Späth nursery, Berlin, describes 'Tiliifolia' [:'Tiliaefolia'] as having smooth shiny dark green leaves.