Ulmus × hollandica 'Fjerrestad'

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Ulmus × hollandica
Hybrid parentage
U. glabra × U. minor
Cultivar
'Fjerrestad'
Origin
Sweden

Ulmus × hollandica 'Fjerrestad' is one of a number of cultivars arising from the crossing of the Wych Elm U. glabra with a variety of Field Elm U. minor. First mentioned in Meded. Comite. Best. Iepenz. 13: 9, 1933, but without description [1]. Although no details of the clone's commercial cultivation survive, it is worth noting that all the elms in the conservation area [2] at Fjerrestad have succumbed to Dutch elm disease.

[edit] Hybrid cultivars

'Fjerrestad' was crossed with Ulmus × hollandica and U. minor subsp. minor in the Dutch elm breeding programme before WW2, but none of the progeny were of particular note and were discarded. [2].

[edit] Etymology

The clone is named for the village of Fjärrestad in Skåne between Landskrona and Helsingborg, Sweden.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Green, P. S. (1964). Registration of cultivar names in Ulmus. Arnoldia, Vol. 24. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University. [1]
  2. ^ Went, J. A. (1954). The Dutch elm disease - Summary of 15 years' hybridisation and selection work (1937-1952). European Journal of Plant Pathology, Vol 60, 2, March 1954.
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