P. van Rijckevorsel wrote:
"a_plutonium" schreef
http://www.fw.vt.edu/dendro/dendrolo...eet.cfm?ID=135

I suspect that the seeds of this Virginia Tech website are not that of
"Rock Elm" Ulmus Thomasii (Racemosa)

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Well, you may have something there. These fruits do look very odd.
PvR

Looking at those pictures, the buds on the twig do look like a Rock-
Elm.

But the corky twig looks more like a burr-oak corky twig.

And the fruits look more like Siberian Elm fruits.

The trunk bark looks to me more like Burr-oak, again, rather than an
elm trunk bark.

The picture of the silhouette of a alleged Rock-Elm, looks to me more
like some other
elm such as American Elm with its characteristic vase shape branching.
I have seen some
Rock Elm that is multibranching, but those are few.

So what gives with this Virginia Tech website of Rock Elm? Is Rock Elm
a species that is more
"plastic" in characteristics than is thought of? Or is it the case
that someone at VT wanted a
website for Rock Elm and cobbled together any old pictures even though
they were not pictures
of Rock Elm? Or perhaps it is all a prank to see if anyone can spot
the prank?

If Rock Elm is plastic in features, then perhaps the southern most
members of niche are very
different from its northern members. Some trees in the south look very
different from the northern
members.

I would guess the fruit above is so different from any Rock Elm, that
the above is either a mistake
or a prank.

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