The European White Elm cultivar Ulmus laevis 'Aureovariegata' (also 'Aureo-variegata'), a yellow-variegated form, may have been the tree first listed, without description, in Hortus Regius Monacensis (1829) as Ulmus effusa (: laevis) variegata, grown at the Munich Botanic Garden. An Ulmus effusa (: laevis) fol. variegatis (Hort.) was first described c.1890 by the Späth nursery of Berlin, which distributed the tree in the late 19th century.Späth, L., Catalogue 79 (1890-91; Berlin), p.114 The name U. effusa (: laevis) f. aureovariegata appeared in Beissner and Schelle's Handbuch der Laubholz-Benennung, 1903, without description.
There was also an Ulmus laevis cultivar 'Punctata', with white-flecked leaves.
Description Henry (1913) briefly described Aureo-variegata as having "leaves spotted with yellow". The leaves of Späth's U. effusa fol. variegatis (Hort.) (1890) were "colourfully marbled and streaked".Späth, L., Catalogue 89 (1892-93; Berlin), p.116Herbarium specimen of variegated U. laevis, labelled U. effusa Willd. foliis argent.-varieg. ('Argenteo-Variegata'), science.udau.edu.ua
Cultivation No specimens are known to survive. The cultivar, present in Späth's late 19th-century catalogues, is absent from his early 20th, perhaps suggesting that the leaves were prone to revert to green.
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pl:Wiąz szypułkowy 'Aureovariegata'