Dutch Elm Disease

[Kristofor]

Anywho.... Siberian Elm is one of the resistant varieties.

Interestingly (to me at least) I read in two different articles when I was looking up the items above that Siberian Elm is the "Typhoid Mary" (using that exact phrase) of the Dutch Elm Disease spread because it can live for much longer while infected spreading the disease to many adjacent trees.

Oak wilt is another fungus disease of (shock) Oak trees. Primarily passed through the roots, but it can also be transmitted by insects. Here's some basic information: http://www.extension.umn.edu/distrib...es/DD3174.html If you want more information call the U of M Extension service. You're paying for it, may as well have a little of the benefit go to folks other than farmers

Kristofor.

[Russianwolf]

Not sure why the articles would say that when landscapers love them as shrub trees/windbreaks.

Here is the wiki on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_Elm

[Kristofor]

LOL, not sure I'd use that link to defend the tree

From the 4th paragraph:

"In North America it has become an invasive species from Utah east to Kansas and north to Ontario. It was successfully planted in great numbers in shelter belts across the prairies in the aftermath of the Dustbowl disasters, but later proved very susceptible to various maladies. Described by horticultural writer Dr Michael Dirr as "one of, if not the, world's worst trees...a poor ornamental that does not deserve to be planted anywhere".

Now, I wouldn't know a Siberian Elm if one fell on me, so I'm not qualified to really discuss its merits at detail and for all I know one Dr. Dirr holds stock in an Oak and Maple tree nursery. I'm absolutely not trying to rip on the tree. What I do know is that I read in multiple sources that they were common reservoirs of Dutch Elm that would then be passed to other trees, I am not able (read willing) to independently verify this .

The long and the short of it is, I'll be planting a new tree in my yard in another couple months here, and I'm 100% certain it will not be an Elm, American, Siberian, or otherwise

Kristofor.

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