Tags: Cultivar (Cultivated Variety).
The elm cultivar ‘Purpurea’ [Koch Dendr. 2 (1) 416 (1872)] is probably synonymous with the tree listed by Henry as Ulmus montana (: glabra) atropurpurea raised at the Späth nursery in Germany c.1881 but later classed as a cultivar by Boom [1] in Ned. Dendr. 1: 157 1959. In Australia cultivars by the name of U. glabra ‘Purpurea’ U. procera ‘Purpurea’ and U.
