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Zelkova or Ulmus?

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Posted 5 years 10 months ago #54917
Recently gifted this lovely tree... was labelled as a zelkova (Japanese elm) but cant help thinking it looks more like an Ulmus (Chinese elm) could somebody please identify it for me? :)
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Posted 5 years 10 months ago #54918

dannsimmonss wrote: Recently gifted this lovely tree... was labelled as a zelkova (Japanese elm) but cant help thinking it looks more like an Ulmus (Chinese elm) could somebody please identify it for me? :)


These plants are practically always Ulmus. They were renamed to Zelkova to avoid import problems.
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Posted 5 years 10 months ago #54925
Note: The tree as pictured is way to dry and about to be killed by drought. I can see the leaves curling up.
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