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The Elm cultivar ''Ulmus'' 'Tiliaefolia' was first mentioned by

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in ''Flora Austriaca'' (1827), as ''Ulmus tiliaefolia'' linden-leaved">Tilia.html" ;"title="Tilia">linden-leaved The Späth nursery">Tilia">linden<_a>-leaved.html" ;"title="Tilia.html" ;"title="Tilia">linden-leaved">Tilia.html" ;"title="Tilia">linden-leaved The ''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

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leaves, rounded or subcordate and not usually strongly oblique at the base. Host said the leaf was biserrate. The catalogue of the leaf shape">subcordate and not usually strongly oblique at the base. Host said the leaf was biserrate. The catalogue of the Späth nursery, Berlin">Späth nursery">leaf shape">subcordate and not usually strongly oblique at the base. Host said the leaf was biserrate. The catalogue of the Späth nursery, Berlin, describes 'Tiliifolia' [:'Tiliaefolia'] as having smooth shiny dark green leaves.

Pests and diseases

'Tiliaefolia' is not known to have any resistance to Dutch elm disease.

Cultivation

No examples of 'Tiliaefolia' are known to survive. Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach, Reichenbach noted briefly that the tree was once grown in

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and Austria. One tree was planted in 1898, as ''U. tiliifolia'', at the

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, Canada. Three specimens were supplied by the

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to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1902 as ''U. tiliaefolia'', and may still exist in Edinburgh as it was the practice of the Garden to distribute trees about the city (viz. the Wentworth Elm); the current list of Living Accessions held in the Garden ''per se'' does not list the plant. A specimen obtained from Späth before 1914, and planted in 1916, stood in the

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arboretum, Norfolk, in the early 20th century.

Putative specimens

A tree with leaves matching herbarium specimens of 'Tiliaefolia' Sheet described as ''U. scabra'' ''U. glabra'' Hudson''tiliaefolia'' (1900) stood in Dyke Road, Brighton, till 2012. File:BH00015 Ulmus. Fairways, Dyke Road, Brighton. (3).jpg, Dyke Road elm, Brighton (before 2012) File:BH00015 Ulmus. Fairways, Dyke Road, Brighton. (1).jpg, Leaves from Dyke Road, Brighton (2009) An old elm with leaves close to herbarium specimens of Späth's 'Tiliaefolia', stands (2016) in Belgrave Cescent Gardens, Edinburgh. File:Ulmus x hollandica. Belgrave Crescent Gardens, Edinburgh (1).jpg, Belgrave Crescent Gardens elm File:Ulmus x hollandica. Belgrave Crescent Gardens, Edinburgh (5).jpg, Branching File:Ulmus x hollandica. Belgrave Crescent Gardens, Edinburgh (2).jpg, Leaves of same File:Ulmus x hollandica. Belgrave Crescent Gardens, Edinburgh (6).jpg, File:Ulmus x hollandica. Belgrave Crescent Gardens, Edinburgh (3).jpg, Short-shoot leaves File:Ulmus x hollandica. Belgrave Crescent Gardens, Edinburgh (4).jpg, Bole File:AZ0100 Ulmus. Belgrave Crescent Gardens samarae 2.jpg, Samarae

References

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