Miniature tree?

4 years ago

This little tree has me stumped. I believe it is some kind of elm. There's a tree next door and thousands of seeds blow over every year. They're very prolific and germinate EVERYWHERE. I've grown 6 or 7 and they are all normal size but you can only use so many trees. I included the ruler for some scale and just in front of the tree is one of the seeds (the white flat circular object). Is it possible this will stay small or is it just a curiosity?

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Mark Furtak SoCal Sunset 10/USDA 8b
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4 years ago

Thanks for all the thoughts. The tree is two yrs old and all the others like it are four to five feet tall now and that's why it's so interesting. I don't see how I'm torturing it in a pot. All commercially grown trees are started in pots.

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gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
4 years ago
If grown from the seed of a "normal" sized elm, no reason to assume it won't grow to the same approximate size of the mother tree. Yours is still very much a baby.
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ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
4 years ago
we need a pic that we can actually focus on a leaf if you want an ID... the seed also if you can ...

your big city location might also help ..

frankly .. no tree that free seeds itself into your garden.. is a valuable tree .. the logic usually being.. if you find one.. you will start finding hundreds. then thousands of them ...

its probably small.. because you are torturing it in a pot ...

find some valuable trees to grow as a hobby ... but have fun regardless

ken
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HU-525254581
4 years ago
Almost looks like a Beech of some kind or maybe a birch. A beech wouldn't have seeds that blow over though I guess.
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gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
4 years ago
Leaves looks completely elm-like to me.
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FrozeBudd_z3/4
4 years ago
How old is this little guy? Variations do occur and interesting to see how it might develop in the coming years, I'd keep it if I were you !!
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