Photography by Marie Viljoen. Above: Siberian elm samara in New York City. Like other fruit, nut, and winged seed trees (like maples), elms can have mast years, or a bumper crop, where branches ...

Because it proliferates so quickly -- and the wind blows its seeds far and wide -- a Siberian elm tends to overtake ...

Fruit – Similar to U. americana. Silvics – Native to Asia; hardest of all elms; ornamental; messy because of the brittle twigs; resistant to Dutch Elm Disease. The Siberian elm is a non-native, ...