The American elm cultivar Ulmus americana 'Folia Aurea Variegata' was first described by Jäger in Die ziergehölze der Gärten und parkanlagen (1865).Jäger, Hermann, Die ziergehölze der Gärten und parkanlagen, Weimar, 1865; p.548 An Ulmus americana foliis variegatis Hort. had been listed by Loudon in 1838.Loudon, J. C., Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum (1838), p.2587
Description The tree was distinguished by leaves variegated with yellow.
Cultivation Loudon reported specimens of his 'Foliis variegatis' in the Horticultural Society Garden. No specimens are known to survive. A 2018 Cornell study of the surviving elms of the National Mall, Washington D.C., listed some 28 specimens of a "distinctive striped cultivar, possibly U. americana ", but this referred to vertical fissuring in young bark, not to variegated leaves.Bassuk, Denig, Harada, Neal: 'The state of the elms on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.: tree & soil conditions' (2018); hort.cornell.edu
Synonymy U. americana var. foliis variegatis Hort.: Loudon, Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum, 4: 2587, 1838.
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