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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 29, 2018 15:11:51 GMT -5
I have never heard anyone, before this thread, ever call a tree a piss anything. I have heard many call a mulberry tree a weed planted by Satan.... Was that Marshall? |
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Post by drlj on Apr 29, 2018 16:20:28 GMT -5
I have never heard anyone, before this thread, ever call a tree a piss anything. I have heard many call a mulberry tree a weed planted by Satan.... Was that Marshall? No, it was Marshall’s neighbor right after Marshall planted one of those trees in his yard. |
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Post by millring on Apr 29, 2018 16:35:03 GMT -5
"piss elm" sounds just like "piss elm".
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Post by brucemacneill on Apr 29, 2018 17:18:01 GMT -5
I googled Piss Elm and found this thread from 2008. Did anyone notice this thread is 10 years old?
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Post by drlj on Apr 29, 2018 17:20:26 GMT -5
I googled Piss Elm and found this thread from 2008. Did anyone notice this thread is 10 years old? Holy crap. I did not notice until you pointed it out. |
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Post by epaul on Apr 29, 2018 17:58:45 GMT -5
Piss Elm is a common (derogatory) name for the Siberian Elm (Ulmus pumila). It is native to northern China, Siberia, Manchuria, and Korea. It was first brought over here in the 1860s and became widely planted in the fifties and sixties for use in windbreaks and shelterbelts as it is very hardy and widely adaptive to varying soils.
The Siberian Elm is resistant to Dutch Elm disease and has been incorporated into a number of elm breeding programs for that very purpose. The goal is to combine the Siberian elm's disease resistance, and nothing else of it, into a tree that looks like the classic American elm. There are several hybrid elm cultivars that have met this goal(to varying degrees) that have been released and are being once again planted in our towns and cities.
There is also a "Chinese elm" (Ulmus parvifolia) that is often confused with the Siberian elm. The Chinese elm is a better looking tree but not nearly as hardy.
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Post by epaul on Apr 29, 2018 18:05:37 GMT -5
I figured it out when when the Major told the Hermit that piss elm made good hockey sticks, "...which are in high demand in your part of the world". Well, I know hockey sticks aren't in high demand in Washington or wherever the hell it is the Hermit now lives, so I knew the post had to date back to when the Hermit lived deep in the Minnesota woods.
But, it is a topic that never grows old, so I fired up the keyboard.
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