tree id?

[benjamin]

Here is the pic of bark and leaves. Trunk is 4'' diamiter and only 4 rings . FOUR! the last TWO are the heartwood. Was a honey orange color when I was chopping it but has sinse turned about the color of red elm heartwood. The heartwood is only about the size of a quarter so this is a mostly sapwood tree. Pretty sure it's an elm just not sure what kind  Any ideas? And has anyone ever made a bow with only one ring in the limbs? This will either be really good or really bad.

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[mullet]

  I'm sure we don't have that tree down in Florida but the leaves look similar to a type of Elm we have here.

[sailordad]

not sure but it looks like what we call chinese elm.

[mullet]

  The bark looks to rough to me for Chinese elm.

[sumpitan]

Elm often grows insanely fast. I've done an elm bow with a single 1/2"+ ring in the working section of the flattie. The bow was an obese dud like many elm bows I've made, but I don't think the single-ring limbs had much to do with that. Wish I'd get more of the stuff to make a short D-bow with really nothing but a single, continuous latewood ring in it.

Tuukka

[DanaM]

Doesn't look like any elm I'm familar with, the leaves meet evenly at the stem, all the elm I know of meet unevenly.

[Marc St Louis]

Looks like a young White Elm.  I've seen White Elm growing in rich soil with growth rings fully 1/2" thick

[Hillbilly]

Yeah, that's definitely an elm. Where are you located? Are the leaves rough and sandpapery feeling on the top, bottom, or both?

[benjamin]

They are rough on the top rubbing towards the stem. some of the leaf bases look pretty even while others are definately uneven. I'm in Utah and got lucky enough to find this tree in a neighbor's yard blown over in a storm. Good things come to those who wait.

[koan]

Well, looks like red mulberry we have here, looks like osage when you first cut it but then changes color after a bit. jmo....Brian

[mullet]

   It's not big enough for Mulberry.

[Mattco]

According to Audubon Field guide it has the characteristics of water elm - toothed simple leaves - oval shaped  - alternate - bark islight brown or grey, shedding exposing red - brown inner layers - generally found inN. Carolina to N. Florida

         I don't know where you are located - Mattco

[M-P]

Hi,  It's just a guess  but it looks like a siberian elm (Ulmus siberiensis) to me.  They are often called 'chinese elm' and are naturalized where I grew up in western Nebraska.  I've seen them advertised  as the "wall of china elm" for their supposed ability to form a quick hedge.  Did you ever notice it producing seeds while it was still growing?  If so what time of year and what did they look like?   Siberian elms produce a winged seed, that is slightly oval over all, and produces them early in the spring before leafing out. 
Ron

[a finnish native]

I don't know what tree that is, but what I do know is that the thicker the rings in whitewood bows, the better. at least this is mu experience, and I have read so from many sources. go ahead and try. from the sapwood that is.