Slippery Elm
(Ulmus fulva)

Tree Description

Branches start high up and the branches are less droopy than in an american elm   

Leaf Description

• Leaf Texture is rough
  
• Leaf Arrangement is alternate
• Leaf Margin is doubly serrate
• Leaf Venation is pinnate
• Leaf Division is simple
• Leaf Attachment is Petiolate
• Leaf base is uneven

Bark Description
       
the bark is deeply furrowed but irregular in shape  

Twig and Bud Description

                
twigs are slightly zigzag and are gray to brownish gray

Fruit Description 

3/4 to 1 inch across
margin and surface of wing are smooth

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Resources:

• http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/main.htm
• Symonds, George W. D. The Tree Identification Book. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1958.
• Trees and Nonflowering Plants. The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.,1998