Ulmus_'Fremont'
Ulmus × intermedia 'Fremont'
Elm cultivar
The hybrid elm cultivar Ulmus × intermedia 'Fremont' is a little-known American hybrid cultivar propagated from a tree found on the Lloyd Moffet property (formerly the Plumfield Nurseries) at Fremont, Nebraska. The hybrid is believed to have arisen from a crossing of Ulmus pumila (female parent) and one of the spring-flowering elms native to North America,[1][2] probably Ulmus rubra. The source tree was probably an unsold specimen of the Plumfield Nurseries' "Hybrid Elm", a cross between "Chinese elm" (as U. pumila was then called[3]) and Red elm U. rubra, briefly marketed from 1942 to 1943,[4][5] but not appearing in later catalogues. This hybrid may have been the same as the cultivar sourced from Plumfield Nurseries at this time as "Hybrid Chinese Elm" and later marketed by the Interstate Nurseries, Hamburg, Iowa, as 'Hamburg'.[6]