Ulmus pumila , also look up to asSiberian elmor Asiatic elmwood is unremarkably a pocket-sized to average - sized , often bushy , deciduous tree grow to 25 m tall . It is aboriginal to Central Asia , easterly Siberian , the Russian Far East , Mongolia , Tibet , northerly China , India and Korea . The tree diagram has an opened rounded summit and slender , diffuse branches .

Siberian Elm was introduce from northerly China and eastern Siberia and has since naturalise across the United States , particularly in the Midwest and Great Plains regions . This tree is invasive nature , take form dense thickets that crowd out native plant and reduce grass for wild brute and livestock .

There is some debate about the precise twelvemonth the Siberian Elm arrived in North America . Some germ point to 1860 , while others intimate Professor John George Jack present it in 1905 , followed by Frank Nicholas Meyer and then . Regardless of the precise date , it infix the panorama during the 19th century , in all probability as a avenue and shelterbelt tree diagram . Early baby’s room catalog even listed it in the 1800s .

Over sentence , the Siberian Elm has been used in hybridization drive to rise elm varieties resistant to Dutch Elm Disease ( DED ) , a fungal disease that devastated many elm populations . The tree ’s disease resistivity and fecund seed product have contributed to its widespread naturalization , but its strong-growing seeding habit and brittle branches have also direct to it being take invasive in some areas .

Siberian elm is somewhat like toAmerican elm ( U. americana ) , slippery elm tree ( U. rubra ) and rock and roll elm ( U. thomasii ) , all of which are native to the Great Lakes part . The leaves of American and slippery elm are two-fold or more the size of the leaves of Siberian elm , and are also notably uneven at the leaf base . Rock elmwood foliage are interchangeable in size and shape to Siberian elm , but its one-time bark is distinctly ridged and corky , its source are hirsute , and its pennant is narrow than Siberian elm . Rock elm is also quite rare in much of its range . All of the aboriginal elms have dual toothed leaf bound ( the large teeth each have small , finer tooth ) , while the edges of Siberian elm leaves are singly toothed .

Siberian elm is most interchangeable in visual aspect to the alien ornamental houhere elm tree ( U. parviflora ) , which also has small leaves that are almost even at the base . Lacebark elmwood leaves are usually glossier on the top surface and more leathery in grain than Siberian elm . Lacebark elm flowers in the fall , not the spring . lastly , matured barque of lacebark elm has a trenchant , lacey pattern , while Siberian elm bark has vertical ridges .

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Interesting Facts about Siberian Elm

Siberian Elm – Identification Guide (Pictures)

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