This blog tries to get a bit deeper into the nature of the trees around me, mainly in the Low Weald of Kent.

Tuesday, 22 May 2012

May - English Elm

If you ignore the hoverfly resting on it, this is a fairly normal leaf of the English Elm, Ulmus procera, showing the double toothing along the margin serrations, asymmetric leaf shape, and apparently slightly shiny, if deceptive, upper surface of the leaf.