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Andy Hill
 
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(v) wrote:
There are not many elms in the US any more, what with Dutch Elm
Disease. An if you did have one - an elm is a notably vertical and
towering tree, even small ones sold by tree farms don't usually have
low branches sticking out to the side. Elms reach up up up.

Plenty of Siberian Elms out Idaho way (heck, they're one of the few trees that
will establish from seed in this climate). The young ones (say, 15 yrs old)
will often have branches sticking out "head height"). Never had one grow back,
'tho, if it's sawn off good and close to the trunk. Wouldn't surprise me to
see a branch that was lopped off a couple feet from the trunk re-sprout, 'tho.