Ulmus 'Homestead'

Ulmus 'Homestead'

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. minor 'Hoersholmiensis')), the latter grown from seed sent in 1960 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison elm breeding team by Hans Heybroek of the De Dorschkamp Research Institute in the Netherlands. 'Homestead' was released to commerce in 1984.