Tags: Cultivar (Cultivated Variety).
The elm cultivar ‘Atropurpurea’ was raised from seed at the Späth nursery in Berlin Germany circa 1881 as Ulmus montana (: glabra) atropurpurea but was later classed as a cultivar by Boom [1] in Ned. Dendr. 1: 157 1959. ‘Atropurpurea’ is probably synonymous with ‘Purpurea’.