Hornbeam?

[bluebedouin]

Would I be correct in saying this is a pyramidal european hornbeam?

[Mick Dempsey]

Leaves look elm like....Zelkova?

[nepia]

Leaves look elm like....Zelkova?

 

 

I'd go with that; I reckon the leaf stems and axils are right.

 

Here's a small one they've got at Kew.

[Stubby]

I'm with the OP . Bark looks more like Hornbeam than Elm .

[se7enthdevil]

hornbeams don't have asymmetrical leaf bases.

 

got to be an elm family.

[Lazurus]

hornbeams don't have asymmetrical leaf bases.

 

got to be an elm family.

 

He knows his trees!!!:thumbup:

[Stubby]

hornbeams don't have asymmetrical leaf bases.

 

got to be an elm family.

 

Oh yea . True . Bark looked more like HB than E.

[daltontrees]

I'm almost certain this is a Carpinus betulus 'Pyramidalis'. Hornbeam, at least the Pyramidalis, can have an asymmetric leaf by about one vein on the inward side of the leaf,,but this tends to disappear in the leaves towards the apex of every twig. Everything else in the pictures is saying C.b., even the wound callus. I have pruned a few of these and the density of the crown and the uniformity of the sub-fastigiate branch structure is so rare as to be unforgettable.

 

On the other side, I can't reasonably fit this into any Ulmus or Zelkova description.

[Gary Prentice]

Don't zelkova have symmetrical leaf bases, unlike the Ulmus species?

 

Is the leaf hairy?

[daltontrees]

As significantly, I have found their leaf margins to be much more orderly, Zelkova is non-wispy and Ulmus is so unmistakably Ulmus as to be definitely not anything else.