Ulmus minor 'Atinia'
Ulmus minor 'Atinia' | |
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Species | Ulmus minor |
Cultivar | 'Atinia' |
Origin | Italy |
The
Richens believed that English elm was a particular clone of the variable species
Max Coleman of the
Synonyms (chronological)
- Ulmus sativa Mill.[15]
- Ulmus campestris L. var. vulgaris Aiton[16]
- Ulmus procera Salisb.[17]
- Ulmus atinia J. Walker[18]
- Ulmus surculosa Stokes[19]
- [Ulmus suberosa Smith, Loudon, Lindley - disputed]
- Ulmus minor Mill. var. vulgaris (Aiton) Richens[20]
- Ulmus minor Mill. subsp. procera (Salisb.) Franco.[21]
- Ulmus procera 'Atinia'[22]
Description
The tree often exceeded 40 m (about 130 ft) in height with a trunk less than 2 m (6.5 ft) in
The tree is both female- and male-sterile, natural regeneration being entirely by root suckers.
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English Elm at Powderham, before 1913
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English Elm, 1904
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Bark of English elm
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Leaves from a specimen tree in Sussex, England (2009)
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Dried short-shoot leaves of mature trees in Edinburgh (August)
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Juvenile leaves in hedgerow
Pests and diseases
Owing to its homogeneity, the tree has proven particularly susceptible to
In the United States, English elm was found to be one of the most preferred elms for feeding by the Japanese beetle
The leaves of the English elm in the UK are mined by Stigmella ulmivora.
Uses
... He liked to be alone, feeling his soul heavy with its own fate. He would sit for hours watching the elm trees standing in rows like giants, like warriors across the country. The Earl had told him that the Romans had brought these elms to Britain. And he seemed to see the spirit of the Romans in them still. Sitting there alone in the spring sunshine, in the solitude of the roof, he saw the glamour of this England of hedgerows and elm trees, and the labourers with slow horses slowly drilling the sod, crossing the brown furrow, and the chequer of fields away to the distance. |
– From D. H. Lawrence, The Ladybird (1923).[32] |
The English elm was once valued for many purposes, notably as water pipes from hollowed trunks, owing to its resistance to rot in saturated conditions. It is also very resilient to crushing damage, and these two properties led to its widespread use in the construction of jetties, timber piers, lock gates, etc. It was used to a degree in furniture manufacture, but not to the same extent as oak, because of its greater tendency to shrink, swell, and split, which also rendered it unsuitable as the major timber component in shipbuilding and building construction. The wood has a density around 560 kg/m3.[33]
However, English elm is chiefly remembered today for its aesthetic contribution to the English countryside. In 1913, Henry Elwes wrote, "Its true value as a landscape tree may be best estimated by looking down from an eminence in almost any part of the valley of the Thames, or of the Severn below Worcester, during the latter half of November, when the bright golden colour of the lines of elms in the hedgerows is one of the most striking scenes that England can produce".[7]
Cultivation
The introduction of the Atinian elm to Spain from Italy is recorded by the Roman agronomist
More than a thousand years after the departure of the Romans from Britain, English elms found far greater popularity, as the preferred tree for planting in the new
English elm was introduced into Ireland,
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St Peter's Church, Preston Village, Brighton, English elms regrowing after lopping (1951)
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Hourglass-shaped English elm, Preston Park, Brighton (1992)
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English elm, Preston Park, Brighton (2004)
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Winter silhouette of English elm, Brighton (2009)
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English elms on Royal Parade, Parkville, Melbourne (2012)
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English elms inCootamundra, New South Wales, one trimmed for power line (2015)
Notable trees
Mature English elms are now only very rarely found in the UK beyond Brighton and Edinburgh. One large tree survives in
Some of the most significant remaining stands are to be found overseas, notably in Australia, where they line the streets of
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One of three English elms (lower branches removed) around which the Crystal Palace was built forthe Great Exhibition, 1851[75]
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A coloured lithograph of the same tree (1851)
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English elm avenue inFitzroy Gardens, Melbourne(2006)
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Hangman's Elm, Washington Square Park, New York (2007)
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One of two large English elms near Trophy Point at West Point, NY (2009)
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One of the last old English elms in Edinburgh (2016)
Brighton and the cordon sanitaire
Although the English elm population in Britain was almost entirely destroyed by Dutch elm disease, mature trees can still be found along the south coast Dutch Elm Disease Management Area in East Sussex. This cordon sanitaire, aided by the prevailing southwesterly onshore winds and the topographical niche formed by the South Downs, has saved many mature elms. Amongst these were possibly the world's oldest surviving English elms, known as the 'Preston Twins' in Preston Park, both with trunks exceeding 600 cm in circumference (2.0 m dbh), though the larger tree lost two limbs in August 2017 following high winds,[76] and was felled in December 2019 after succumbing to DED.[77][78]
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Sign on A27 road, Brighton, England
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The oldest known English elms in the UK, the 'Preston Twins', Brighton, 2008
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The larger of the twins, 2006
Cultivars
A small number of putative cultivars have been raised since the 18th and early 19th centuries,[79] three of which are now almost certainly lost to cultivation: 'Acutifolia', 'Atinia Pyramidalis', 'Atinia Variegata', 'Folia Aurea', 'Picturata'. Though usually listed as an English Elm cultivar, Ulmus 'Louis van Houtte' "cannot with any certainty be referred to as Ulmus procera [ = 'Atinia'] " (W. J. Bean).[23] In Sweden, U. × hollandica 'Purpurascens', though not a form of English Elm, is known as Ulmus procera 'Purpurea'.[80]
Hybrids, hybrid cultivars, and mutations
Crossability experiments conducted at the
The 2004 study, which examined "eight individuals classified as English elm" collected in Lazio, Spain, and Britain, noted "slight differences among the Amplified fragment length polymorphism fingerprinting profiles of these eight samples, attributable to somatic mutations".[9] Since 'Atinia', though female infertile, is an efficient producer of pollen and should be capable of acting as a pollen parent; it is compatible with the 2004 findings that in addition to a core population of genetically virtually identical trees deriving from a single clone, intermediate forms of U. minor exist, of which that clone was the pollen parent. These might be popularly or even botanically regarded as 'English elm', though they would be genetically distinct from it, and in these, the female infertility could have gone. The "smooth-leaved form" of English elm mentioned by Richens (1983),[8] and the "northern and Irish form" seen by Oliver Rackham in Edinburgh and Dublin and said by him (1986) to have been introduced to New England,[85] are possible examples of 'Atinia' mutations or intermediates.
In art and photography
The elms in the
Among classic photographs of English elm are those by Edward Step and Henry Irving in Wayside and Woodland Trees, A pocket guide to the British sylva (1904).[95]
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Constable, Study of an elm tree (around 1821)
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Figure-of-eight-shaped English elms, Hyde Park: James Duffield Harding's The Great Exhibition of 1851
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The Cam near Trinity College, Cambridge (unknown artist): a grove of mainly English elms on The Backs[96]
Accessions
North America
- Longwood Gardens, US. Acc. no. L-2507.
- Morton Arboretum, US. Acc. nos. 211-40, 756-60, 351-70.
Europe
- d.b.h. in 2001.[98]Brighton & Hove has some 700 trees; the most notable examples are at Preston Park, South Victoria Gardens, Royal Pavilion Gardens, The Level, Holmes Avenue, University of Sussex Campus; Preston Road (A23) and Hanover Crescent.
- Grange Farm Arboretum, Sutton St James, Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK. Acc. no. 518.
- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK. As Ulmus procera. Acc. no. 20081448.[99]
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. Acc. no. not known.
- Strona Arboretum, University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. No details available.
- University of Copenhagen, Botanic Garden, Denmark. One specimen, no details available.
- Westonbirt Arboretum,[100] Tetbury, Glos., UK. Four trees, listed as U. minor var. vulgaris; no acc. details available.
Australasia
- Avenue of Honour, Ballarat, Australia. Details not known.
- Eastwoodhill Arboretum,[101] Gisborne, New Zealand. 12 trees, details not known.
- Waite Arboretum,[102] University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia. No details available.
See also
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External links
- Jobling & Mitchell, 'Field Recognition of British Elms', Forestry Commission Booklet Archived 2018-08-03 at the Wayback Machine
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070222232826/http://redwood.mortonarb.org/PageBuilder?cid=2&qid= Morton Arboretum Catalogue 2006
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- Heybroek, Hans M, 'The elm, tree of milk and wine' (2013)
- U. procera, Flora of North America, www.efloras.org