About: Ulmus glabra 'Cornuta'

The Wych Elm cultivar Ulmus glabra 'Cornuta', in cultivation before 1845 – Fontaine (1968) gives its provenance as France, 1835 – is a little-known tree, finally identified as a cultivar of U. glabra by Boom in Nederlandse Dendrologie 1: 157, 1959. The cultivar 'Triserrata', usually considered a synonym of 'Cornuta', was first described by in Petzold and Kirchner (1864) as U. triserrata Hort..It was distributed by the Späth nursery, Berlin, in the late 1890s and early 1900s as U. montana triserrata Kirch..