Is the American Liberty Elm a hybrid?
NO! Not to be confused with Asian or European hybrids, the new American Liberty elm is the result of over fifty years of selection and research. The Liberty elm is a collection of six American elms that survived rigorous testing with injections of live Dutch elm disease fungus. They were developed through cross-pollination with American elms which have natural resistance to the disease, and are true American elms. The strain is kept pure through vegetative propagation of the trees. Your tree is an exact copy of one of the trees that survived the testing in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
