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Any idea what this tree is
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catswhiskers
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| Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 3:53 pm Post subject: Any idea what this tree is |
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It has grown to this size in a year. It must be from a seed/pip/stone a bird or animal has drooped or pooped - but it is growing so fast. We live in Southern PA. We want to transplant it as it is not in a great place but wanted to know if it has a tap root. Thanks.
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Wrennie
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| Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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May be a birch. Can you get a closer up of the bark?
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catswhiskers
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| Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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I was thinking a birch as the leaves do look kinda like that. I will take a pic of the bark tonight. Thanks
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Droopy
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| Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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I thought of elm, but I'm impossible when it comes to trees. Those leaves don't look like our birch leaves at all.
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toni
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| Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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Check out American Elm.
http://dcwi.com/~bmills/trees/Elm/Elm/AmericanElm/index.htm
The leaves in pictures 3 and 4 look like yours.
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xylona
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| Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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Yea I was going to say some kind of elm (I have been looking at tree pictures for the last hour, hehe). I just didn't find any pictures with kind of bright green, so I was positive. All the elms seem to have similiar leaves though.
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Netty
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 12:51 am Post subject: |
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It looks like an Elm to me too.
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Biita
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 5:12 am Post subject: |
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Okay you all beat me to it,,lol.
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glendann
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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Its looks just like my American Elm in my front yard.
It grows reall fast I plant mine 3 years ago and have cut it back every year as it does grow very fast.
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catswhiskers
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks guys. I have spent hours looking online at photos. I thought Elm too. However I think it might be a Hackberry
http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/774/85010314.JPG
Which has an elm like form and is in fact related to the elm. When I was looking at the elm tree it had different leaf pattens to the tree I have and can only find the Hackberry that looks like this. However I have found photos a Chinese Elm and that does look like it too. I am still not sure!
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Papa2mykids
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I'm thinking Japanese elm. Fast growing, nasty tree.
Keep it and you may regret it as it will seed everywhere and drop twigs like crazy.
Ron
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stratsmom
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I kind of had a bad experience with one of those little buggers  Because it was alive and growing I fell in love with it! It grew sooooo fast!! The roots tore up the driveway, the branches pushed on the fence and the bugs loved it! Because it grew so fast it was weak and an old lady told me that it would break in the wind and probably land on my garage! So needless to say my husband got rid of it 
Deanna
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gardenmama
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 12:01 am Post subject: |
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Could be an american beech tree...Looks a lot like the beech trees we have in our yard here in Vermont.
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Griphook
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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ELM!
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