Ontario Trees & Shrubs website

Mystery Plant #90019

Added: 2011-01-21

An Elm, but with rather strange bark. Unfortunately this tree has now died (these photos were taken in 2003 and 2004). Near Cambridge, Ontario.

Suggestions
Rock Elm (KFS)

 
  
 

Mystery Plant #90019

Underside of a leaf.

Mystery Plant #90019

Various leaves.
The number of veins and the number of forked veins suggests White Elm (Ulmus americana), per the book Trees of Canada by Farrar.

Mystery Plant #90019

Upper surface of a leaf.

Mystery Plant #90019

Leaves on the tree.

Mystery Plant #90019

The bark is rather strange. VERY prominently ridged. This led me to wonder if it was a Rock Elm (Ulmus thomasii). But the branches showed none of the characteristic ridging of that species.