 Ulmus 'Rubra'

The elm cultivar Ulmus 'Rubra' was reputedly cloned from a tree found by Vilmorin in a wood near Verrières-le-Buisson in the 1830s.It was listed in the 1869 Catalogue of Simon-Louis, Metz, France, as "Ulmus campestris rubra", and by Planchon in de Candolle's "Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis" (1873) as "Ulmus libero-rubra"