The

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 ...

cultivar 'Punctata' spotted', the leaffirst appeared in the 1886–87 catalogue of Simon-Louis of Metz, France, as ''U. campestris punctata''. It was distributed by the

Späth nursery The Späth (often spelt ''Spaeth'') family created one of the world's most notable plant nurseries of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The nursery had been founded in 1720 by Christoph Späth but removed to the erstwhile district of Baumschulen ...

, Berlin, in the 1890s and early 1900s as ''U. campestris punctata'' Sim.-Louis, the Späth catalogue listing it separately from ''U. campestris fol. argenteo-variegata'' (which was probably either the Field Elm cultivar 'Argenteo-Variegata' or the English Elm cultivar 'Argenteo-Variegata') and from ''U. campestris fol. argenteo-marginata''. Green considered it possibly a synonym of the Field Elm cultivar 'Argenteo-Variegata'. 'Punctata' is not to be confused with the

European White Elm ''Ulmus laevis'' Pall., variously known as the European white elm, fluttering elm, spreading elm, stately elm and, in the United States, the Russian elm, is a large deciduous tree native to Europe, from France northeast to southern Finland, east b ...

cultivar ''U. laevis'' 'Punctata'.

Description

'Punctata' was described by Simon-Louis as having spotted leaves. Späth's catalogue described leaves as "marbled and splashed with white".

Pests and diseases

Most ''U. minor'' cultivars are susceptible to Dutch elm disease, but, if not grafted, can survive through root-sucker regrowth.

Cultivation

No specimens are known to survive, unless the tree is synonymous with 'Argenteo-Variegata' or 'Atinia Variegata', both still cultivated. One tree was planted in 1898 as ''U. campestris punctata'' at the

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, Canada. Three specimens supplied by the

, Berlin, to the

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in 1902 as ''U. campestris punctata'' may survive 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 of ''U. campestris punctata'', obtained from Späth before 1914 and planted in 1916, stood in the

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arboretum, Norfolk,rystonhall.co.uk/
/ref> in the early 20th century. An 'Album Punctatum', with "white-speckled foliage", appeared in the 1902 catalogue of the Bobbink and Atkins nursery, Rutherford, New Jersey.

Synonymy

* ''U. minor'' 'Argenteo-Variegata' ? * ''U. minor'' 'Atinia Variegata' ?

References

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