Slippery Elm, Red Elm, Moose Elm Scientific Name: Ulmus fulva
Description: A small to medium-sized tree, 40-60 ft. in height with a trunk diameter of 1-2.5'. Forming a broad open rather flat-topped head, resembling the White Elm but with less drooping branches. Bark is gray-ish brown, more or less deeply furrowed, internally reddish-brown without conspicuously whitish layers; inner bark next to wood, whitish, strongly mucilaginous, giving the name slippery elm.
Habitat: Rich, low grounds; low, rocky woods and hillsides.
Range: Valley of the St. Lawrence, apparently not abundant; south to Florida, west to North Dakota and Texas.
Type: Tree Source:Northeastern Trees in Winter by Albert Blakeslee and Chester Jarvis
Photograph: Paul Wray, Iowa State University from www.forestryimages.org. |
