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possible elm tree???

comments (3) October 7th, 2009 in gallery

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tree growing behind my home...about 8 ft tall in this pic...zone 6b...anything other than an elm?


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Comarish59 writes: Looks to me like american elm. Posted: 3:13 am on June 15th
DCPinner writes: Yeah, I'd have to say it's an Elm as well. Your zone is a zone that I am not very familiar with. I'm in the Piedmont of SC, but I checked the link that budding gardener had (forestry.about etc) and the closest one that yours looks like is a Rock Elm. Your leaves in the picture are sun leaves which is a good thing because shade leaves tend to be fatter and sometimes different looking than the stereotypical leaves. But I think that this elm naturally has a broad leaf. I have a book that I really like, it's called Native Trees of the Southeast by Kirkmand and others. It's an ID guide. It says that rock elm occurs primarily in NE and Midwestern stats but extends into western Virginia. It is distinguished from other elms of the southeast by its very sharp pointed bud, irregular corky wings on older branches, and whitish pubescence on the lower surface of leaves. It's so hard to tell from a photo. If you know how to use a dicotomous key, that book will help.
The edges of your leaves look a little more sharply serrated, but that would be my best guess. Posted: 11:54 pm on November 2nd
budding_gardener writes: Hi!

It's hard to tell from the pics, but elms can be identified by the fact that they all have leaves where the bottom edges are offset near the petiole like this:

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j280/gardenplansireland/Wych-Elm-Ulmus-glabra-Leamhn-sli-1.jpg

More on elms here:

http://forestry.about.com/cs/treeid/a/the_elm.htm

Hope this helps!
:) Posted: 5:49 pm on November 2nd
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