Ulmus 'Myrtifolia'
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The elm cultivar Ulmus 'Myrtifolia', the Myrtle-leaved Elm, first appeared in nursery and horticultural lists from the 1830s, as Ulmus myrtifolia and Ulmus campestris myrtifolia,[1][2][3] the name Ulmus myrtifolia Volxem being used at Kew Gardens from 1880.[4] Lawson's nursery of Edinburgh appears to have been the earliest to list the tree.[1] 'Myrtifolia' was listed by Nicholson in Kew Hand-List Trees & Shrubs (1896), but without description.[5] It was later listed as a cultivar and described by Rehder in 1939[4] and by Krüssmann in 1962.[6]
The specimen under this name in the Herb. Nicholson at Kew was considered by Melville to be a probable U. minor × Ulmus minor 'Plotii' hybrid.[7]
The cultivar 'Myrtifolia Purpurea', which has larger leaves, is not related to 'Myrtifolia'.[4]