Re: Tree with small variegated leaves in Bellagio, Lago di Como

This is also a longshot, I don't know the garden but I wonder if it was a variegated form of Celtis australis which is often planted in Med Europe? Deciduous and the leaves do rather resemble an elm. 

Gill Pound
Nr Carcassonne, S France

Richard Starkeson wrote:
This is a longshot - but I have been wondering about this tree for 15 years. We were walking through the Gardini di Villa Mezli in Bellagio, on our way to lunch (one of the best restaurant lunches I have ever had). I saw this immense tree. I remember it being at least 20 meters high; the leaves (or leaflets) were about 4-5 cm long and 2/3 as wide, shaped rather like small Ulmus leaves.But they were variegated - green and white. Unfortunately, I did not have a camera, so I have only my memory of the tree.
I was wondering if anyone else had passed that way and knew what the tree was. The tree was striking enough, and so large, and the only one of its kind there, that someone familiar with those gardens and with horticultural knowledge would surely know what it was.
Or perhaps someone might know of an Italian horticultural website where I might ask someone what the tree is.
I have not been back to Bellagio since, but if I return there, I will surely try to more precisely identify the tree. 

Richard Starkeson,

San Francisco.
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