Ulmus 'Tortuosa'
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The elm cultivar Ulmus 'Tortuosa' Host, the Wiggly Elm, was described by Host in Flora Austriaca (1827) as Ulmus tortuosa,[1][2][3] from low, twisted, small-leaved trees that grew in the hilly districts of Hungary.[4] A contemporary herbarium specimen (1833) from Central Europe labelled U. tortuosa Host appears to show small field elm-type leaves. Henry distinguished 'Tortuosa' Host from Loddiges' and Loudon's U. tortuosa, which he identified with Ulmus 'Modiolina', "l'orme tortillard" of France. Henry noted, however, that abnormal sinuous or zigzagging growth "might occur in any kind of elm",[5] and herbarium specimens of elms labelled 'Tortuosa' range from U. minor cultivars to hybrid cultivars, some treated as synonymous with 'Modiolina' (see 'External links' below). A large-leaved U. campestris tortuosa was described by David in Revue horticole (1846),[6] while a hybrid var. tortuosa cultivar from Louveigné, Belgium, with twisted trunk and large leaves, was described by Aigret in 1905.[7] An U. campestris suberosa tortuosa was marketed in the 1930s by the Hesse Nursery of Weener, Germany, by its description a contorted form of corky-barked field elm.[8]