The elm cultivar Ulmus 'Rufa' [:rufous-coloured] was listed as U. campestris f. rufa by Georg Dieck, of Zöschen, Germany, without description in Haupt-catalog der Obst- und gehölzbaumschulen des ritterguts Zöschen bei Merseburg, Nachtrag I (1887),Dieck, G., Haupt-catalog der Obst- und gehölzbaumschulen des ritterguts Zöschen bei Merseburg, Supplement 1, (Zöschen 1887), p.28 though it had been in cultivation for some decades before this date. Sheet labelled Ulmus rufa, Hort. Bot. Parisiensis (1834) It was considered "possibly Ulmus carpinifolia" (: Ulmus minor) by Green.
Description Not available. An 1834 Paris herbarium specimen shows near-orbicular leaves like those of English elm.
Cultivation Ulmus rufa, 'European red elm', was marketed by Prince's nursery of Flushing, New York from the 1840s.'Prince's annual catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees and plants ', William Prince & Co., Flushing, New York, 1842, p. 32 No specimens are known to survive.
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