title: Ulmus × hollandica 'Macrophylla Aurea'
text: # Ulmus × hollandica 'Macrophylla Aurea'
  
  The hybrid elm cultivar Ulmus × hollandica 'Macrophylla Aurea' was listed by Bean in Kew Hand-List Trees & Shrubs, ed. 3, 273, 1925 as U . montana var. macrophylla aurea, but without description.
  
  ## Description
  
  A tree with large, golden leaves.
  
  ## Cultivation
  
  No specimens are known to survive. An U. Macrophylla aurea appeared in the 1904 catalogue of Kelsey's, New York, where it was described as a vigorous tree with a graceful habit and large, distinctive yellow foliage.
  
  ## Synonymy
  
  * ?Ulmus americana macrophylla aurea: Späth nursery (Berlin, Germany), catalogue 116, p. 125, 1904–05.
  