The hybrid elm cultivar Ulmus × hollandica 'Tricolor' was first listed as U. suberosa tricolor by C. de Vos in 1867.
[1] The tree was distinguished by its silver-variegated foliage, the leaves near the tips of growing branches coloured red;[2] it was not a rapid grower, however.
[3] The Späth nursery of Berlin marketed an U. montana tricolor in the late 19th century.
[4] An U. montana tricolor, probably sourced from Späth, was planted at the Dominion Arboretum, Ottawa, in 1896.
[7] The tree was known to have been marketed as U. montana 'Tricolor' in Poland in the 19th century by the Ulrich nursery,[8] Warsaw, and may still survive in Eastern Europe.