Tags: Cultivar (Cultivated Variety).
The American hybrid elm cultivar Ulmus ‘Homestead’ was raised by Alden Townsend of the United States National Arboretum at the forestry station in Delaware Ohio. The cultivar arose from a 1970 crossing of the Siberian Elm Ulmus pumila (female parent) with the hybrid N 215 (‘Commelin’ × (U. pumila var. arborea × U.