About: Ulmus minor 'Pendula'

The Field Elm cultivar Ulmus minor 'Pendula' was said to have been raised in Belgium in 1863. It was listed as Ulmus sativa pendula by in 1887, and by Boom in 1959 as a cultivar. Herbarium specimens confirm that more than one field elm clone has been distributed as 'Pendula'. Henry (1913) distinguished "the true var. pendula", with its "dense crown of foliage", from a cultivar Kew called U. glabra Mill. pendula nova, "a common form of [field elm] with drooping branches". The van Houtte nursery of Ghent distributed an U. campestris pendula from the 1880s, as did various English nurseries, while Späth's of Berlin marketed a small-leaved U. campestris suberosa pendula Hort. from the 1890s.