Strange Fall Colors On A Chinese Elm

Thomas_J.

Out of all my Chinese Elms, this one has the strangest colors.
All of my others turn yellow in the fall, while this one turns a reddish purple. Anyone else have one of these?

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ROBOKU

How stange .I haven't seen anything like that .

are u shure u dident spray paint the leaves!!

lol

ROBOKU

GaryS

Mine that are in the ground turn that purple color too. I like it.

I can't remember having one that turned yellow! Siberian elm but not Ulmus parvifolia.

I thought Ulmus parvifolia always turned purplish tones.

http://www.haverford.edu/Arboretum/...0parvifolia.jpg

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Thomas_J.

Gary,

strange that you haven't seen any with yellow leaves. I checked out that link and it looks like that's the common color(purple). Like I said this is the only one I've seen with this color. Maybe I just haven't been around enough.
Thomas J.

GaryS

Thomas J,

I don't know if it's strange or not but...... it probably is, it's a strange world. They come in all different flavors.

Ulmus parviflora click on the cultivars list.
This one seems to have a yellow color to it.

I live in a very cold climate and this fall the leave on the chinese elms just turned brown and fell off.
Most years mine turn purple though. The seed source of mine came from a tree from in Madison, Wisconsin.

Ulmus parviflora isn't even supposed to be hardy here but the ones I have been growing are very hardy. They are what's left of a bag of seeds I got from the director of the Arboretum in Madison.

I just read M. Dirr's book and officially they turn yellow to reddish purple so I think we're covered.

I like the shape of this one:Ulmus p "Alee"

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Tony

T. J. Funny you should bring this up. I've got the same thing going on here in OK. Most of my Chinese elms just turn kind of a mellow yellow color in fall then drop their leaves. No big deal really. But this little one I'm training over a rock had the most interesting color this year. It didn't really turn yellow. It went from green to pinkish to a deep redish purple. I've never seen this on elms around here. I've heard there is a lot of variation within this species though when it come to fall color. It may even be influenced by trace minerals [or lack there of] in the soil. Who knows? They're all gone now though. That freezing rain we had this week pretty much took care of that. One thing's for sure, if it continues to have this fall color I'll be taking many cuttings off this tree.

Tony

splinter

Tony,
You got some of that storm too? I'm in Kansas, and we still have snow on the ground.

Thomas_J,
The elms around here usually have the leaves turn yellow in the fall. Actually until the photo that you posted, I had never seen an elm with purple leaves. The color is a nice diversion from the usual leaf color. I have two potted elms, and they both turn yellow.

Has anyone here ever used a Chinese Pistache for bonsai? I've got two young ones growing in my yard, and have been very pleased with them. They seem to be fine with any type of soil, and don't require continual care while establishing. In fact I moved one of them from my back yard up to the front, a season after I planted it, because I changed my mind in my landscaping plans. The tree never seemed to have any reaction to the move at all. With the tree being so forgiving, I'm thinking it would be a good bonsai choice for me - especially since I'm still in the "please don't die" phase of my bonsai learning.

Marsha

Thomas_J.

Tony,
I'm glad to hear you also have one of these, and are enjoying it too. I hope you can get some good cuttings off of it .

Marsha,
Chinese Pistache are certainly used for bonsai. In fact if my memory serves me right, a Ch. Pistache won the JAL world bonsai contest coming in first place a few years back. Try it, you'll probably have fun with it.

Gary,
Thanks again for this link also. That is a stunning pic of a ch. elm sitting in front of someones home. Wish it were in front of mine.
Thomas J.

DavidN

Wow I wish my elms turn red. Impossible in our climate. Also on yellow and golden colours at best here. I would take sit back and appreciate the colours that this tree is putting out. Beautiful.