Wood id...

So I was going through my pictures and came across this. It's been several years but I never found out exactly what it was and now I'm curious again. I'm "assuming" some type of elm. We have multiple varieties of elm here and the larger ones (guessing American elm) have the thicker "spongier" bark. Never seen one of these bigger than about 10" or so. The local forestry guy said "Silverbell"? I looked it up and the leaves don't look the same to me.

Anyway, I'm assuming these are the same tree. Winter pictures are the one I cut and burned at some point, spring pictures are what I believe to be the same species tree based on the bark and the leaves that were left on the branches of the one in the winter.

Thanks

 

American elm.

 

last pic looks like elm leaves

 

I would say American elm. For sure not Siberian elm.

 

Eric Wanderweg might know...

 

The bark varies a lot with site conditions and age but Jason called it correctly first, American elm.

 

I didn't realize american elm had such light heart wood. I'm too used to dealing with all the crappy siberian elm on my property.

 

Elm. Not sure of the variety.

 

American Elm. The leaves are helpful as well. Siberian Elms tend to have much smaller leaves than American. Same pattern and structure, but a step down in size.