Ulmus laevis 'Urticifolia'
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The European White Elm
U. laevis cultivar 'Urticifolia' was raised by Jacques http://asaweb.huh.harvard.edu:8080/databases/botanists?id=174189 as a chance seedling
in 1830, and propagated by grafting. Listed in Revue Hort. 2: 128, 1832 as U. urticifolia. It was later mentioned by de Vries
in Plant Breeding, 1906 .
European White Elm
Ulmus laevis Pall., the European White Elm, Fluttering Elm, Spreading Elm and, in the USA, Russian Elm, is a large deciduous tree native to Europe, from France northeast to southern Finland, east as far as the Urals, and southeast to Bulgaria and the Crimea; there is also a disjunct population in...
U. laevis cultivar 'Urticifolia' was raised by Jacques http://asaweb.huh.harvard.edu:8080/databases/botanists?id=174189 as a chance seedling
Chance seedling
A chance seedling is a plant that is the product of unintentional breeding. It may be a genetically unique individual with desirable characteristics that is then intentionally bred. Plants that come from the artificial union of gametes from a maternal and paternal source are not chance...
in 1830, and propagated by grafting. Listed in Revue Hort. 2: 128, 1832 as U. urticifolia. It was later mentioned by de Vries
Hugo de Vries
Hugo Marie de Vries ForMemRS was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering the laws of heredity in the 1890s while unaware of Gregor Mendel's work, for introducing the term "mutation", and for developing a mutation...
in Plant Breeding, 1906 .