>>359806>What's so terrible about it? You both seem to have a violent antipathy to it.-They break in thunderstorms all the time
-They are messy
-You can't eat the pears
-They are generic trees that don't have a form pleasing to me
-Their flowers aren't actually good for any wildlife
-Their flowers smell like dirty vagoo
-They are horrendously overplanted
>If it's that tree, shouldn't there be those beautiful white blooms I see in photos? And, you know, pears?The two good qualities:
-Nice blooms
-Good fall color
>What are spines?pic related
>Note the odd, almost flat branches that are coming out and creeping across the ground into the yard the tree is in.That makes me think it isn't an elm. First of all, elms grow fast as fuck. Second of all, they are big trees, and that looks like a bush form. Are you sure that is the same tree?