The
European White Elm cultivar
A cultivar is a type of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and when propagated retain those traits. Methods used to propagate cultivars include: division, root and stem cuttings, offsets, grafting, tissue culture ...
''Ulmus laevis'' 'Colorans' was listed as ''U. effusa (: laevis)'' var. ''colorans'' by Kirchner in
Petzold & Kirchner, ''Arboretum Muscaviense'' (1864).
Peter Shaw Green
Peter Shaw Green (11 September 1920–17 August 2009) was an English botanist.
Early life
Green was born in Rochester, Kent, the youngest son of John and Elizabeth (née Hainsworth) Green, his father a civilian engineer with the Royal Air For ...
(1964) suggested that Herder's ''U. campestris''
Linn. ''rubescens'', described in ''Gartenflora'' (1871),
[''Gartenflora'' 20 (1871) p.347](_blank)
/ref> by its name a wych elm
''Ulmus glabra'' Hudson, the wych elm or Scots elm, has the widest range of the European elm species, from Ireland eastwards to the Urals, and from the Arctic Circle south to the mountains of the Peloponnese and Sicily, where the species reaches i ...
cultivar with "reddening leaves", from Yelagin Island
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, may have been an earlier listing of a 'Colorans'-type ''U. laevis'' under a mistaken species name.[
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Description
The tree was described by Kirchner as having leaves turning a rich scarlet red in autumn, not golden yellow.
Cultivation
'Colorans' was rare in cultivation. Kirchner planted two specimens in the Arboretum Muscaviense.[ A tree said to be of this type stood near ]Hailsham
Hailsham is a town, a civil parish and the administrative centre of the Wealden district of East Sussex, England.OS Explorer map Eastbourne and Beachy Head Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton B2 edition. Publishing Da ...
, East Sussex, UK (on the Cuckoo Trail); regrowth from it survives there (2006). The tree is not known to remain in cultivation elsewhere.
Synonymy
*''Ulmus effusa'' var. ''rubescens'': Schwerin, ''Mitteilungen der Deutschen dendrologischen gesellschaft'' 20: 423, 1911.
*''Ulmus pedunculata (: laevis)'' var. ''erubescens'': Elwes,harvard.edu
/ref> in Elwes, H. J. & Henry, A. (1913). ''The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland''. Vol. VII.[ Republished 2004 Cambridge University Press, ]
*(?) ''U. campestris'' Linn. ''rubescens'': Herder ''Gartenflora'' 20: 347 1871.
References
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