TheElmcultivarUlmus 'Tiliaefolia' was first mentioned byHost inFlora Austriaca (1827),[1] asUlmus tiliaefolia [:linden-leaved]. TheSpäth nursery of Berlin distributed a 'Tiliaefolia' from the late 19th century to the 1930s as neither anU. montana hybrid nor afield elm (U. campestris) cultivar, but simply asUlmus tiliaefolia, suggesting uncertainty about its status.[2][3] Herbarium specimens appear to show two clones, one smaller-leaved and classified as a field elm cultivar,[4] the other larger-leaved.[5]
The tree was said to haveovate leaves, rounded orsubcordate and not usually strongly oblique at the base.[6] Host said the leaf was biserrate. The catalogue of theSpäth nursery,Berlin, describes 'Tiliifolia' [:'Tiliaefolia'] as having smooth shiny dark green leaves.[2][3]
No examples of 'Tiliaefolia' are known to survive.Reichenbach noted briefly that the tree was once grown inBohemia and Austria.[7] One tree was planted in 1898, asU. tiliifolia, at theDominion Arboretum,Ottawa, Canada.[8] Three specimens were supplied by theSpäth nursery to theRoyal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1902[9] asU. tiliaefolia, and may still exist inEdinburgh as it was the practice of the Garden to distribute trees about the city (viz. theWentworth Elm);[10] the current list of Living Accessions held in the Gardenper se does not list the plant.[11] A specimen obtained from Späth before 1914, and planted in 1916, stood in theRyston Hall arboretum,Norfolk,[12] in the early 20th century.[13]
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