Ulmus minor 'Folia Alba-Punctata'
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Field Elm ''Ulmus minor'' Mill., the field elm, is by far the most polymorphic of the European species, although its taxonomy remains a matter of contention. Its natural range is predominantly south European, extending to Asia Minor and Iran; its northern ...
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''Ulmus minor'' 'Folia Alba-Punctata' was first identified by C. de Voskiki.huh.harvard.edu
/ref> in 1867, as ''Ulmus campestris fol. albo punctatis''. The tree is assumed to be ''U. minor'' by Green.


Description

C. de Vos described the tree as having leaves dotted, not flecked, with white.


Cultivation

No specimens are known to survive. An 'Album Punctatum', with "white-speckled foliage", appeared in the 1902 catalogue of the Bobbink and Atkins nursery, Rutherford, New Jersey, though this may have been the 'Punctata' more common in cultivation at that time.


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