Elm With Long Tipped Leaves?

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neefman East Bridgewater, MA Aug 22, 2014

The lighting was tough in this nook of the campus. Is this an Elm and if so what kind? I want to guess Slippery Elm.

Thanks!

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Resin Northumberland, United Kingdom(Zone 9a) Aug 22, 2014

Looks more like a cherry to me; leaves not oblique at the base as in elms.

Resin

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ViburnumValley Scott County, KY(Zone 5b) Aug 22, 2014

The smooth bark and the cluster of trunks forming a vase-shaped habit say for all the world Zelkova!

But those leaves don't, and that acuminate drip-tip is maddening.

Take more pictures of buds, and more of other parts of the tree next time. It always amazes me that with an unknown that a picture of the whole plant is not forthcoming.

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neefman East Bridgewater, MA Aug 23, 2014

No way to get a pic of the whole try in that tight spot unless I broke into the building or climbed up to the roof.

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ViburnumValley Scott County, KY(Zone 5b) Aug 23, 2014

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Nice sunny day like that, I could imagine - having done so often - laying down and shooting upward.

Two sides to every coin.

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neefman East Bridgewater, MA Aug 24, 2014

So you mean like on one knee angled up 45 degrees? That may have worked...

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ViburnumValley Scott County, KY(Zone 5b) Aug 24, 2014

That's halfway down!

I've laid flat on my back to get the whole tree in the image, in some cases.

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