Arboretum, Bloemfontein

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Arboretum
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Arboretum
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Arboretum
Coordinates: 29°6′9″S26°13′14″E / 29.10250°S 26.22056°E / -29.10250; 26.22056 Coordinates: 29°6′9″S26°13′14″E / 29.10250°S 26.22056°E / -29.10250; 26.22056
Country South Africa
Province Free State
Municipality Mangaung
Main Place Bloemfontein
Area
[1]
  Total0.86 km2 (0.33 sq mi)
Population
(2011) [1]
  Total266
  Density310/km2 (800/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
[1]
   Black African 16.9%
   Coloured 7.5%
   White 75.2%
First languages (2011)
[1]
   Afrikaans 67.7%
   English 16.5%
   Sotho 10.5%
   Tswana 2.6%
  Other2.7%
Time zone UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)
9305
PO box
9301
Area code 051

Arboretum is a suburb of the city of Bloemfontein in South Africa.

Suburb Human settlement that is part of or near to a larger city

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Bloemfontein Place in Free State, South Africa

Bloemfontein is the capital city of the province of Free State of South Africa; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals and is the seventh largest city in South Africa. Situated at an altitude of 1,395 m (4,577 ft) above sea level, the city is home to approximately 520,000 residents and forms part of the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality which has a population of 747,431.

South Africa Republic in the southernmost part of Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 mi) of coastline of Southern Africa stretching along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini (Swaziland); and it surrounds the enclaved country of Lesotho. South Africa is the largest country in Southern Africa and the 25th-largest country in the world by land area and, with over 57 million people, is the world's 24th-most populous nation. It is the southernmost country on the mainland of the Old World or the Eastern Hemisphere. About 80 percent of South Africans are of Sub-Saharan African ancestry, divided among a variety of ethnic groups speaking different African languages, nine of which have official status. The remaining population consists of Africa's largest communities of European (White), Asian (Indian), and multiracial (Coloured) ancestry.

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<i>Ulmus</i> Morton Stalwart = <span class="trade_designation" style="font-variant:small-caps; margin-left: 0.05em;">Commendation</span>

Ulmus 'Morton Stalwart', is a Morton Arboretum hybrid cultivar arising from a controlled crossing of Accolade with the hybrid of a Field Elm U. minor from eastern Russia and a Siberian Elm U. pumila.

<i>Ulmus</i> Koopmannii

The elm cultivar Ulmus 'Koopmannii' was cloned from a specimen raised from seed sent from Margilan, Turkestan by Koopmann to the Botanischer Garten Berlin c. 1880. Noted in 1881 as a 'new elm', it was later listed by the Späth nursery, catalogue no. 62, p. 6. 101, 1885, as Ulmus Koopmannii, and later by Krüssmann in 1962 as a cultivar of U. minor. Margilan is beyond the main range of Ulmus minor. Augustine Henry, who saw the specimens in Berlin and Kew, believed Koopmann's Elm to be a form of Ulmus pumila, a view not shared by Rehder of the Arbold Arboretum. Ascherson & Graebner said the tree produced 'very numerous root shoots', which suggests it may be a cultivar of U. minor. Until DNA analysis can confirm its origin, the cultivar is now treated as Ulmus 'Koopmannii'.

The elm cultivar Ulmus 'Rugosa' [:'wrinkled', the leaves], was first listed in Audibert's Tonelle (1817), as "U. campestris Linn. 'Rugosa' = orme d'Avignon ", but without description. Green identified this cultivar with one listed by Hartwig and Rümpler in Illustrirtes Gehölzbuch (1875) as Ulmus montana var. rugosaHort.. A cultivar of the same name appeared in Loddiges' catalogue of 1836 and was identified by Loudon in Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum (1838) as Ulmus montana var. rugosaMasters; Masters accorded the tree the common name of maple-bark elm. Ulmus montana was used both for wych cultivars and for hybrid cultivars of the Ulmus × hollandica group.

<i>Ulmus laciniata</i> var. <i>nikkoensis</i> variety of plants

Ulmus laciniata var. nikkoensisRehder, the Nikko elm, was discovered as a seedling near Lake Chūzenji, near Nikkō, Japan, and obtained by the Arnold Arboretum in 1905. The taxonomy of the tree remains a matter of contention, and has been considered possibly a hybrid of U. laciniata and U. davidiana var. japonica. However, in crossability experiments at the Arnold Arboretum in the 1970s, U. laciniata, a protogynous species, was found to be incompatible with U. davidiana var. japonica, which is protandrous.

Ulmus parvifolia var. coreana, the Korean elm, is a variety of the Chinese elm Ulmus parvifolia, native to Korea.

Ulmus parvifolia f. lanceolata, the Chinese elm, is a rare form endemic to South Korea.

Korea National Arboretum is an arboretum located in Jikdong-ri, Soheul eup, Pocheon city of Gyeonggi Province of South Korea. Before 1999, the arboretum was called Arboretum Gwangneung.

<i>Ulmus pumila</i> Poort Bulten

The Siberian elm cultivar Ulmus pumila 'Poort Bulten' hails from Arboretum Poort Bulten in Losser, Netherlands. This tree was for many years mistaken for Planera aquatica or 'water elm' and commercially propagated under that name.

The Japanese Elm cultivar Ulmus davidianavar.japonica 'Validation' is a selection made by Kunso Kim and Bethany Brown of the Morton Arboretum released in 2011; propagation is by grafting onto Siberian Elm Ulmus pumila rootstocks.

The hybrid elm Ulmus davidianavar.japonica × U. minor was raised at the Arnold Arboretum before 1924.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Sub Place Arboretum". Census 2011.