62) at Wageningen in the Netherlands, by the elm disease committee, from a selection of Ulmus minor found in France in 1939.

However, specimens of the tree grown in the UK and the United States are falsely treated as Ulmus × hollandica (after Fontaine [1]).

The leaves are ovoid to oval (6 to 10 cm), emerging more or less purple-red; the underside is pillose.

'Bea Schwarz' was later propagated and marketed in the UK by the Hillier & Sons nursery, Winchester, Hampshire from 1967 to 1977, when production ceased with the advent of the more virulent form of Dutch elm disease.

[7][8] The largest known examples in the UK grow along Crespin Way, Hollingdean, Brighton; planted in 1964, they measured 19 m high by 50 cm d.b.h.