Ulmus × hollandica 'Wredei'

Infobox Cultivar | name = "Ulmus × hollandica"

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image_caption = 'Wredei', Stadtspark, Groningen. Photo: Ronnie Nijboer, Bonte Hoek kwekerijen
hybrid = "U. glabra" × "U. minor"
cultivar = 'Wredei'
origin = The Netherlands "Ulmus × hollandica" 'Wredei' [http://www.esveld.nl/htmldia/u/ulcwre.htm] is believed to be a sport of the cultivar 'Dampieri Aurea' Green, P. S. (1964). Registration of cultivar names in Ulmus. "Arnoldia", Vol. 24. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University. [http://arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.edu/pdf/articles/1605.pdf] ] .

Description

The tree is fastigiate and has broad, crinkled leaves clustered on short shoots; when these are young they are suffused yellow, but as the tree ages they revert to green.

Pests and diseases

'Wredei' is susceptible to Dutch elm disease.

Cultivation

The tree originated at the Alt-Gelow Arboretum, near Potsdam, Germany, in 1875 Elwes, H. J. & Henry, A. (1913). "The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland."] Vol. VII. pp 1848-1929. Private publication. [http://fax.libs.uga.edu/QK488xE4/7tgbi/] ] . Commonly known as the Golden Elm it is currently one of the most popular elms on sale in Europe.

ynonymy

*"Ulmus dampieri" 'Wredei': Krüssmann, in Parey's "Blumengartn", ed. 2.1: 519, 1958.
*"Ulmus dampieri" var. "Wredei": Juhlke [http://asaweb.huh.harvard.edu:8080/databases/botanists?id=129726] , in "Hamburg Gart.- & Blumenzeit", 33: 485, 1877.
*"Ulmus montana (:glabra)" var. "fastigiata aurea" Hort.: Nicholson, "Kew Hand-List Trees & Shrubs", 2: 141, 1896.
*"Ulmus Wreedi aurea": Leach, ex "Jour. Roy. Hort. Soc.", 16: lxi, 1893.
*"Ulmus × hollandica" 'Dampieri Aurea'

ee also

*Golden Wych Elm, "Ulmus glabra" 'Lutescens', a cultivar often referred to as Golden Elm in Australia and New Zealand.

Accessions

;North America
*Dominion Arboretum, Canada, no details available.
*Morton Arboretum, (as Smooth-leaved Elm, "U. carpinifolia" Wredei), acc. no. 269-57. ;Europe
*Grange Farm, Sutton St. James, Spalding, Lincolnshire, England, (as "Ulmus wredei" 'Aurea') acc. no. 525
*Hortus Botanicus Nationalis, Salaspils, Latvia acc. no. 18119 (as "U × hollandica" 'Dampieri Aurea')
*Royal Horticultural Society Gardens, Wisley. No details available.
*South Park Gardens, Wimbledon, London. UK champion: 14 m high, 59 cm d.b.h. in 2001 Johnson, Owen (ed.) (2003). "Champion Trees of Britain & Ireland". Whittet Press, ISBN 9781873580615] .
*University of Copenhagen Botanic Gardens. No details available.;Australasia
*Ballarat Botanical Gardens, listed on the Significant Tree Register of the National Trust.
*Eastwoodhill Arboretum [http://www.eastwoodhill.org.nz/gardens--collection/collection.aspx?Type=&G=Ulmus] , Gisborne, New Zealand, 1 tree (as "U. minor" 'Wredei'), details not known.

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