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Old 05-08-2016, 06:42 PM posted to rec.gardens
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Default Please help me identify the following plants

On Friday, August 5, 2016 at 7:16:30 AM UTC-7, David E. Ross wrote:
On 8/4/2016 10:58 PM, Al Tprk wrote:
Hello all:

I have three plants that I am trying to identify.

Here are a few photos for them.

https://plus.google.com/photos/10146...CKTJ_Lqj96C0Tw

The first one has leaves like a birch, but it is much taller.


This might be a Chinese elm or a Japanese zelkova; these two are
somewhat related. What color does it get in the autumn? Equally
important, where is the tree growing? That is, what is its climate?


David,

I looked up photos of Chinese elm. The barks fo not match. The one I have seen has a very smooth bark.

Some Japanese zelkova photos resemble what I see.

Beautiful tall trees with picturesque limbs almost crisscrossing each other.

The trees are in my neighborhood in San Jose California.

You can see photos of them on this street in Google maps:

https://goo.gl/maps/nAvSwKSS74F2