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Crispa may refer to:
- Crispa (elm cultivar), a slow-growing tree
- Crispa Redmanizers, a basketball team
- Margery Ruth Crisp, cryptic crossword setter
- Latin binomial abbreviations for species
- A. crispa (disambiguation)
- B. crispa (disambiguation)
- C. crispa (disambiguation)
- D. crispa (disambiguation)
- E. crispa (disambiguation)
- F. crispa (disambiguation)
- G. crispa (disambiguation)
- H. crispa (disambiguation)
- P. crispa (disambiguation)
- S. crispa (disambiguation)
- T. crispa (disambiguation)
- U. crispa
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Ulmus glabra 'Crispa'
The wych elm cultivar Ulmus glabra 'Crispa' Loudon, was once sometimes known as the fernleaf elm.
Description
'Crispa' is a slow-growing tree with pendulous branches bearing narrow, linear to oblanceolate leaves up to 9 cm long by 3.5 cm broad, distinctively wrinkled and with numerous incised curved teeth. Elwes and Henry described it as a small tree, but mature specimens in Sweden have attained a height comparable to the type.
Pests and diseases
A cultivar of the wych elm, 'Crispa' is susceptible to Dutch elm disease.
Cultivation
The tree was once to be found in botanical gardens across Britain, notably at Kew, but only one mature tree is now known to survive, at the Rosemoor Garden in Devon. Specimens survive in Sweden and Latvia. As 'Crispa' was marketed in Poland in the 19th century by the Ulrich nursery,Warsaw, other specimens may still survive elsewhere in Eastern Europe.
The tree is not known to have been introduced to North America, but was once listed by nurseries in Australia in the early 20th century; there are no records of any survivors.
Ruth Crisp
Ruth Crisp (1918–2007) (born Margery Ruth Edwards, who compiled under the names "Crispa" and "Vixen") was one of The Guardian's most noted crossword compilers – producing puzzles for them from 1954 to 2004. She also produced crosswords for The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Independent, the Financial Times, The Sunday Times, and other publications. Crisp's favourite clue of her own creation was: Men's my one failing, (mother of nine) (9). The solution is Mnemosyne.
