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I suspect this Virginia Tech website on Rock-Elm has several errors of fact-- need experts to confirm
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) but rather instead the seeds of Siberian Elm. And I have doubts on the bark of that tree as to being a "Cork Elm". I buy the leaf sprouts and branch and leaf, but I am highly suspicious of the seed and the bark and the picture. Perhaps the person who composed that website had a variety of pictures and cobbled them together, not realizing that some were Siberian Elm and not Rock Elm. Maybe others can judge and hopefully get the website as error-free. Archimedes Plutonium www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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I suspect this Virginia Tech website on Rock-Elm has several errors of fact-- need experts to confirm
"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) *** Well, you may have something there. These fruits do look very odd. PvR |
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I suspect this Virginia Tech website on Rock-Elm has several errors of fact-- need experts to confirm
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) *** 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. Archimedes Plutonium www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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