The elm cultivar ''Ulmus'' 'Rufa'
rufous-colouredwas listed as ''U. campestris'' f. ''rufa'' by
Georg Dieck
Georg Dieck (28 April 1847 in Zöschen – 21 October 1925 in Zöschen) was a German entomologist and botanist.
After attending high school in Naumburg, he studied natural sciences at Jena, where he was a pupil and assistant of Ernst Haeckel. In 1 ...
, of
Zöschen
Zöschen is a village and a former municipality in the district Saalekreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 31 December 2009, it is part of the town Leuna.
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, Germany, without description in ''Haupt-catalog der Obst- und gehölzbaumschulen des ritterguts Zöschen bei Merseburg'', Nachtrag I (1887), though it had been in cultivation for some decades before this date.
[ Sheet labelled ''Ulmus rufa'', Hort. Bot. Parisiensis (1834)] It was considered "possibly ''Ulmus carpinifolia''" (: ''
Ulmus minor'') by
Green.
Description
Not available. An 1834 Paris herbarium specimen shows near-orbicular leaves like those of
English elm.
Cultivation
''Ulmus rufa'', 'European red elm', was marketed by
Prince's nursery of Flushing, New York from the 1840s.
'Prince's annual catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees and plants ', William Prince & Co., Flushing, New York, 1842, p. 32
/ref> No specimens are known to survive.
References
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