[Solved] on a dig please

[Booga]

Hay All.
I dug this yesterday day at the local Show grounds, it is a sucker and man are there some rippers there too.
I had a quick dig around the root systems of the better ones but this one was the only one that wasn't totally
reliant on the mother root
Some of them were ready to plant in a bonsai pot as they had been slashed for a few seasons and had nice fine
branch structures with leaves no bigger than my pinky fingernail and around 8" tall but not many roots apart from the large 3" thick mother root
Any idea what it is I thought an Elm...






SOLVED- Ulmus procera.

[Grant Bowie]

Looks like English elm, Ulmus procera.

Grant

[Booga]

Thanks for the fast reply Grant and the ID I had an idea that it was some type of Elm Go Google

[bodhidharma]

I'd second that Grant. Not very healthy though. Feed it and keep it in dappled shade and it should pull through.

[Booga]

I'd second that Grant. Not very healthy though. Feed it and keep it in dappled shade and it should pull through.

Tanks bod, I have done all of the above along with a hard prune.
At the base it is about 1.1/4".
Hard life! yeah for sure.
It was against a fence post so the Slasher couldn't get it But the whippa Snippa could
It only had around 3 hours morning sun and grew to a flat plane facing East

[Booga]

It lives It is just starting to bud now but will it survive Autumn and Winter as I can see the leaves falling off as soon as they open up