On 8/5/2016 10:42 AM, Al Tprk wrote:
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


I have a Japanese zelkova in front of my house. The photo resembles my
tree. It turns red and burgundy in the fall, even without frost. It
thrives in most California climates, especially both the San Francisco
Bay area and my southern California area.

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David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean, see
http://www.rossde.com/garden/climate.html
Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary