The Wych Elm cultivar ''Ulmus glabra'' 'Corylifolia Purpurea' was raised from seed of 'Purpurea' and described as ''U. campestris corylifolia purpurea'' by Pynaert in 1879.''Bulletins d'arboriculture, de culture potagère et de floriculture'' 57, 1879
/ref> An ''U. campestris corylifolia purpurea'' was distributed by the

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of Berlin in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Hesse Nursery of Weener, Germany, corrected the ''U. campestris corylifolia purpurea'' of their 1930s' lists to ''U. glabra'' Huds. ''corylifolia purpurea'' by the 1950s. Green listed 'Corylifolia Purpurea' as a form of ''U. glabra''.

Description

According to Pynaert, 'Corylifolia Purpurea' had large purplish leaves resembling those of

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, with the purple colour persisting into autumn on outer branchlets.

Pests and diseases

See under '' Ulmus glabra''.

Cultivation

No specimens are known to survive. One tree obtained from the

in Berlin was planted in 1893 at the

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, Canada. Introduced to the USA, ''U. campestris'' var. ''corylifolia purpurea'', "Purple filbert-leaved elm", was marketed by the Ellwanger & Barry and Perry nurseries of Rochester, N.Y., from the late 19th century, and by Klehms' of Arlington Heights, Illinois, in the early 20th.Ellwanger & Barry (Mount Hope nurseries), Rochester, N.Y., 1898, p.62
/ref> Three specimens were supplied by Späth to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1902 as ''U. campestris'' 'Corylifolia purpurea', and may survive in Edinburgh as it was the practice of the Garden to distribute trees about the city (viz. the Wentworth Elm). A specimen obtained from Späth stood in the

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arboretum, Norfolk, in the early 20th century. ''U. glabra'' occasionally produces purple-flushed new leaves. An elm in the gardens of the

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, incorrectly listed as ''U. procera'' 'Purpurea', appears in form, fruit and foliage to be a wych elm with a purple new leaves (possibly the cultivar 'Atropurprea'). A similarly misnamed 'Purple English Elm' remains in cultivation in Estonia.'Purple English Elm', Estonia: jarvselja.ee/pood/lehtpuud/ulmus-procera-inglise-jalakas-purpurea File:Purple-flushing Ulmus glabra (2).jpg, Purple-flushing wych leaves, Edinburgh File:Purple-flushing Ulmus glabra (1).jpg

Synonymy

*''Ulmus scabra purpurea corylifolia'': Dieck (

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, Germany), ''Haupt-catalog der Obst- und gehölzbaumschulen des ritterguts Zöschen bei Merseburg'' 1885, p. 82.

References

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