Ulmus 'Androssowii'

Ulmus 'Androssowii'
Karagach [:black tree, = elm], Samarkand
GenusUlmus
Cultivar'Androssowii'
OriginUzbekistan

The hybrid cultivar Ulmus 'Androssowii' R. Kam. (or 'Androsowii'[1]), an elm of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan[2] sometimes referred to in old travel books as 'Turkestan Elm' or as 'karagach' [:black tree, = elm], its local name,[3] is probably an artificial hybrid. According to Lozina-Lozinskaia the tree is unknown in the wild in Uzbekistan,[4][5] and apparently arose from a crossing of U. densa var. bubyriana Litv. (now Ulmus minor 'Umbraculifera'), which it resembles (see the disputed species Ulmus densa), and the Siberian Elm Ulmus pumila.[6] It is sometimes listed as Ulmus × androssowii.[7]

Not to be confused with the Ulmus 'Turkestanica' distributed by the Späth nursery of Berlin.

For U. 'Karagatch', see 'Hybrid cultivars' below.

For so-called Ulmus androssowii var. subhirsuta C. K. Schneid. and Ulmus androssowii var. virgata (Planch.) Grudz. , see Ulmus chumlia.

  1. ^ Richens, R. H., Elm (Cambridge 1981), p.279
  2. ^ Forestry Commission, Report on Forest Research for the year ended March 1987, Edinburgh 1987; p.45
  3. ^ Rickmers, W. Rickmer, The Duab of Turkestan, a physiographic sketch and account of some travels (Cambridge, 1913), pp.172, 26, 63, 162, 166, 332
  4. ^ Sokolov (1951). Trees & Shrubs in the U.S.S.R (in Russian), 2: 506.
  5. ^ kiki.huh.harvard
  6. ^ Rehder, Alfred (1939). "Rehder, new species, varieties and combinations". Journal of the Arnold Arboretum. 20: 88–89. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  7. ^ Ulmus × androssowii Litv., Plants of the World Online; powo.science.kew.org