I got a little help defoliating

[MrFancyPlants]

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?

 

[Silentrunning]

Is that the trunk of the tree or just a vertical branch?

 

[rockm]

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.

 

[sorce]

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.

Sorce

 

[MrFancyPlants]

Is that the trunk of the tree or just a vertical branch?

That’s an apical sacrifice runner in the foreground.

 

[HardBall]

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.

 

[MrFancyPlants]

I think the leaves are rough, I thought that might be the fuzz described about American elm, but maybe it is slippery elm.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

There are many species of elm. Pretty common in the eastern half of the USA is Ulmus rubra, slippery elm. That leaf to me looks slippery elm. As good for bonsai as any of the others.

 

[MrFancyPlants]

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.

 

[MrFancyPlants]

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.