Tags: Cultivar (Cultivated Variety).
The elm cultivar ‘Christine Buisman’ was the first release of the Dutch elm breeding programme initiated in response to the less virulent form of Dutch elm disease (DED) Ophiostoma ulmi which afflicted Europe’s elms after the First World War. ‘Christine Buisman’ was selected as No. ’24’ from a lot of >300 seedlings obtained from Spain (probably Madrid) in 1929 identified as Ulmus foliacea (syn. U.
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