Leaves are alternate, simple, and double-toothed with equal leaf bases.
While closely resembling the leaves of the elm, the leaves are more finely
toothed, tissue paperlike in texture and pale green in color. The buds are
small, brown and pointed, and the twigs are much more slender than elm and
shiny brown.
The fruit is clusters of leafy, pod like structures which enclose flat, ribbed,
pointed nutlets. The light brown or reddish brown bark is finely ridged and
covered with fine thin scales. The ridges are never as heavy as the ridges
of elm bark. Often, the bark tends to spiral up the trunk.
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