Ulmus × hollandica 'Cicestria'
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The hybrid cultivar Ulmus × hollandica 'Cicestria', commonly known as the 'Chichester Elm',[1] was cloned at the beginning of the 18th century from a tree growing at Chichester Hall, Rawreth, near Danbury, Essex, England, then the home of Thomas Holt White FRS, brother of the naturalist Gilbert White. The tree was first recorded by country parson and botanist Adam Buddle in south-east Essex in 1711,[2] and appeared as U. cicestria in an 1801 catalogue.[2] 'Cicestria' is the original Ulmus × hollandica 'Vegeta' (Lindley, Hortus Cantabrigiensis, 1823), but suffered confusion with the later Huntingdon Elm cultivar by John Claudius Loudon who, without consulting Lindley, accorded the epithet 'Vegeta' to Huntingdon Elm in 1838,[3] as he found the two indistinguishable.[4][5] J. E. Little in The Journal of Botany (1923) agreed that Buddle's leaves-specimen of Chichester Elm in the Sloane Herbarium seemed to be the same cultivar as Huntingdon Elm: "If so, this elm [Chichester] was in existence and mature some years before the reputed raising of the Huntingdon Elm by Wood of Huntingdon 'about 1746'."[6]
Ulmus × hollandica 'Cicestria' | |
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Hybrid parentage | U. glabra × U. minor |
Cultivar | 'Cicestria' |
Origin | Essex, England |
Lindley in A Synopsis of British Flora, arranged according to the Natural Order (1829) appeared to distinguish "the Chichester elm" from "the Giant elm", 'Canadian Giant'.[1]