The Wych Elm

Wych Elm

Ulmus glabra, the Wych elm or Scots elm, has the widest range of the European elm species, from Ireland eastwards to the Urals, and from the Arctic Circle south to the mountains of the Peloponnese in Greece; it is also found in Iran...

 Ulmus glabra cultivar 'Corylifolia' (: Hazel-leafed) was first described by Host

Nicolaus Thomas Host

Nicolaus Thomas Host was an Austrian botanist, and the personal physician of Holy Roman Emperor Francis II. His botanical works include Synopsis plantarum in Austria and the four-volume Austriacorum Icones et descriptions graminum; he was also the first director of the botanical garden at the...

 http://asaweb.huh.harvard.edu:8080/databases/botanists?id=102633 in Fl. Austr. 1: 329. Another cultivar of the same name is described by Zapalowicz

Hugo Zapalowicz

Hugo Zapałowicz was a botanist, natural scientist, traveller, military lawyer....

http://asaweb.huh.harvard.edu:8080/databases/botanists?id=149474, in Conspectus Florae Galiciae Criticus 2: 98, 1908, but is now assumed to be 'Cornuta' 
The Wych Elm

Wych Elm

Ulmus glabra, the Wych elm or Scots elm, has the widest range of the European elm species, from Ireland eastwards to the Urals, and from the Arctic Circle south to the mountains of the Peloponnese in Greece; it is also found in Iran...

 Ulmus glabra cultivar 'Corylifolia' (: Hazel-leafed) was first described by Host

Nicolaus Thomas Host

Nicolaus Thomas Host was an Austrian botanist, and the personal physician of Holy Roman Emperor Francis II. His botanical works include Synopsis plantarum in Austria and the four-volume Austriacorum Icones et descriptions graminum; he was also the first director of the botanical garden at the...

 http://asaweb.huh.harvard.edu:8080/databases/botanists?id=102633 in Fl. Austr. 1: 329. Another cultivar of the same name is described by Zapalowicz

Hugo Zapalowicz

Hugo Zapałowicz was a botanist, natural scientist, traveller, military lawyer....

http://asaweb.huh.harvard.edu:8080/databases/botanists?id=149474, in Conspectus Florae Galiciae Criticus 2: 98, 1908, but is now assumed to be 'Cornuta' 
The Wych Elm

Wych Elm

Ulmus glabra, the Wych elm or Scots elm, has the widest range of the European elm species, from Ireland eastwards to the Urals, and from the Arctic Circle south to the mountains of the Peloponnese in Greece; it is also found in Iran...

 Ulmus glabra cultivar 'Corylifolia' (: Hazel-leafed) was first described by Host

Nicolaus Thomas Host

Nicolaus Thomas Host was an Austrian botanist, and the personal physician of Holy Roman Emperor Francis II. His botanical works include Synopsis plantarum in Austria and the four-volume Austriacorum Icones et descriptions graminum; he was also the first director of the botanical garden at the...

 http://asaweb.huh.harvard.edu:8080/databases/botanists?id=102633 in Fl. Austr. 1: 329. Another cultivar of the same name is described by Zapalowicz

Hugo Zapalowicz

Hugo Zapałowicz was a botanist, natural scientist, traveller, military lawyer....

http://asaweb.huh.harvard.edu:8080/databases/botanists?id=149474, in Conspectus Florae Galiciae Criticus 2: 98, 1908, but is now assumed to be 'Cornuta' Green, P. S. (1964). Registration of cultivar names in Ulmus. Arnoldia, Vol. 24. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University. http://arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.edu/pdf/articles/1605.pdf
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Description

Host described the tree as having broad-ovate scabrid leaves, doubly toothed with broad, obtuse teeth.