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Got a question. Is red elm killed by dutch elm disease?
Yep. On the farm they seem to get about 6-10 inches and then die. Occasionally you do see them bigger.
Got a question. Is red elm killed by dutch elm disease?
Red Elm is, or was, one of the more resistant to DED, but not so much any more for a couple reasons...
In this area the first "wave" of DED took mostly American Elm, the second "wave" hit the Red Elm hard, and now the third "wave" is taking just about any sort of elm it can find. It's all sort'a scary when ya' think about it, first DED, now the Emerald Ash Borer is gaining momentum, Oak Blight and Sudden Oak Death Syndrome are taking the oaks... ain't gonna' be much left.
- As the American Elm died off the bug moved on to the Red Elm (and others) and the disease evolved as needed to survive.
- The Siberian Elm was once considered to be near immune, but after the disease crossed the Mississippi it readily evolved to attack it... and the Siberian Elm also readily hybridizes with Red Elm in the wild, which has lowered the Red Elm's resistance in many areas.
I do like to get jiggy with it from time to time.
I tried making soup with them but it tasted like dog toenails.
I was just wondering if anyone else had seen that. Its not every tree, out of the four trees I have piled under the snow, only one trunk has these mushrooms. I had some elm a few years ago that had them too. Kinda strange.
It does get a guy thinking and concerned about good trees being under siege. There is always Boxelder------that WEED tree will probably survive most anything.:msp_angry:
Ron
I cut a lot of dead elm 30 years ago in the Evesham area uk. Biggest problem i had was pebbles, some as much as six feet above ground, followed by barbed wire etc. Really good firewood, low ash. A hydraulic splitter would have seen me do a lot more. Some of these trees were five feet accross at hedgetop height. I still have a 'drinkers' seat i made from one of them, nobody ever fell out of that, or tipped it over. One piece, 230kg . Learn what a decent chain is and how to sharpen it fast on that stuff, it was like iron. I would like to see one of those fancy eight way splitters face a knotty branchy lump of that stuff. You could put the eighty amp mig welder away for starters. I was not aware you have dutch elm disease over your way....Latest here is 'ash dieback'. If so, it'l be a disaster except for my woodburner. Any one got a woman that will split logs ? They are a special type. Not to be argued with. Greetings to all. Jim.
Now the Siberian Elm is nothing but a nuisance tree found (in greater or lesser numbers) near everywhere between the Mississippi and the Rocky's... even considered an invasive species in some areas
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