Ulmus × hollandica 'Serpentina'

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Ulmus × hollandica
Hybrid parentage
U. glabra × U. minor
Cultivar
'Serpentina'
Origin
Europe

The hybrid cultivar Ulmus × hollandica 'Serpentina' is a small tree bearing curved, twisted pendulous branches forming a dense conical or round crown ^[1]. The tree was known to have been marketed (as U. montana 'Serpentina') in Poland in the 19th century by the Ulrich nursery ^[2], Warsaw, and may still survive in Eastern Europe; a specimen at the Ryston Hall [1], Norfolk, arboretum, obtained from the Späth nursery in Berlin before 1914 ^[3], was killed by the earlier strain of Dutch elm disease prevalent in the 1930s. The tree is not known to have been introduced to North America or Australasia.

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• ??Brighton & Hove City Council, UK, NCCPG elm collection [2], 1 tree at Jevington Church, but listed as U. glabra 'Serpentinei'.
• Hortus Botanicus Nationalis, Salaspils, Latvia acc. no. 18126 (as U. glabra 'Serpentina').

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