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Not the best photo, but check out the underside of the top leaf that is left. It looked to be a one bug job, so I shook him away.
There is at least a leaf in focus on the left side. I always assumed this was Siberian elm due to the courser leaves. Any chance it is American?



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Not the best photo, but check out the underside of the top leaf that is left. It looked to be a one bug job, so I shook him away.
There is at least a leaf in focus on the left side. I always assumed this was Siberian elm due to the courser leaves. Any chance it is American?



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Not an American elm. Leaf is the wrong shape--American Elm leaves typically (not always though) have an asymmetrical base at the leaf stem.

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Siberian Elm Leaves or what I know them as are never more than 2 inches. Usually 1/² - 2.

American is usually larger, 3in to 8in with a fuzzy underside.

Could be a hybrid?

Looks Siberian.

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If I saw this in my yard I'd call it Slippery Elm, Ulmus Rubra. Leaves are like sandpaper. Siberian leaves are tiny by comparison.
 
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I think the leaves are rough, I thought that might be the fuzz described about American elm, but maybe it is slippery elm.
 
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Apparently rubra and pumilla rapidly hyribize too, but I’ll start calling it slippery or red elm rather than siberian. Thank you!

I’ll try to get a trunk shot later. It started as a true stick in a pot, and now is a larger stick in a pot, but I the think the trunk has some interest due to some early on rodent damage.
 
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Here is that stick in a pot I was talking about.. probably at about 10 years as a stick in a pot. Although in the last couple years it’s been planted deeper in this larger pot to heal the neberi develop; the footage is actually pretty nice on this one under there if I recall. It also seems to have a little black spot.
 

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