WINGED ELM; WAHOO (Ulmus alata, Michx.). 25 to 50 feet 

 Pretty, round-headed or oblong-headed tree, of slender, as- 

 cending branches, and twigs wearing 2 wide, thin, corky 

 ridges, often \ inch wide. Bark light reddish brown, checked 

 into flat plates by irregular fissures; plates scaly. Cotton 

 bales tied with fibrous inner bark. Wood like that of other 

 elms, but not important in the lumber trade. Leaves ovate- 

 oblong, often sickle-shaped, doubly serrate, firm, leathery, dark 

 green, pale, soft-pubescent below, 1 to 2 inches long, on short, 

 stout, fuzzy petioles. Flowers in drooping pedicel, clustered, 

 before leaves in early spring. Fruit wind-scattered at the 

 time the leaves open; oblong, \ inch long, flat, winged, hairy, 

 with 2 incurved hooks at tip. Dist.: Virginia to Florida; 

 west to Illinois and Texas. Gravelly upland soil near streams 

 or lakes. 



Illustration from "Hough's Handbook of Trees" 



