The Wych Elm cultivar Ulmus glabra 'Pendula Variegata' was first described in 1850, and later by J. F. Wood in The Midland Florist and Suburban Horticulturist (1851) as U. montana pendula variegata, the  'broad-leaved variegated weeping mountain elm', and was said by him to have originated in and been distributed by the Pontey nursery of Kirkheaton, Huddersfield, Yorkshire.
The Wych Elm cultivar Ulmus glabra 'Pendula Variegata' was initially documented in 1850, and later described by J. F. Wood in The Midland Florist and Suburban Horticulturist (1851) as U. montana pendula variegata, known as the 'broad-leaved variegated weeping mountain elm', which he claimed originated from and was supplied by the Pontey nursery of Kirkheaton, Huddersfield, Yorkshire.