Ulmus × hollandica 'Vegeta'
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Ulmus × hollandica 'Vegeta', sometimes known as the Huntingdon Elm, is an old English hybrid cultivar raised at Brampton, near Huntingdon, by nurserymen Wood & Ingram in 1746, allegedly from seed coll
'Vegeta', Groningen.
'Vegeta' leaves; note long petioles. Southsea Common
'Vegeta' leaves, Osney churchyard, Botley Road, Oxford
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The hybrid cultivar Ulmus × hollandica 'Cicestria', commonly known as the 'Chichester Elm', was cloned at the beginning of the 18th century from a tree growing at Chichester Hall, Rawreth, near Danbur
Ulmus × hollandica 'Vegeta'
…and a mild spring permitting the ripening of the samaras, were met." The tree was given the epithet 'Vegeta' by Loudon, a name previously accorded the Chichester Elm by Donn, as Loudon considered the two trees identical. The latter is indeed a similar cultivar, but raised much earlier in the 18th century from a tree…
Two Chichester Elms, Queens' College, Cambridge
Chichester Elm leaves, Queens' College, Cambridge, November
From same trees. Length 5–6 in (13–15 cm) from petiole-end to leaf-tip, width 2.5–3 in (6.4–7.6 cm).
Young Chichester Elm leaves, from saplings cloned from Queens' College trees