Rugby and Marge --- thank you! That looks exactly like the two trees here! Missing, maybe I am totally confused with my forums. I could have sworn there was an "ID the Plant" or "Plant ID" or something like that. It definitely wouldn't have been more than 2 years ago. :-) Larry, I do know that. I've no idea why I wrote it out, silly me haha.

esh-- Thanks for narrowing it down! I missed two keys identifiers earlier this year, being too busy to get to the semi-abandoned side yard: the flowering period and the fruiting (thus my comment that they don't fruit). Your link above and some quick reading reminded me that I did indeed see "light red fruit" on an older tree of identical habit back in Aug. I'm thinking Prunus pensylvanica over the other 2. I'll be watching closely next spring and late summer at the flowers and fruit. These trees are just sprouting all over on me--I'll keep some for screening and because I like them--nice color and nice branch effect (to me, anyway) in winter. Many thanks!! PJP

The bark doesn't peel and is more characteristic of cherry. Yes, and actually, I may take that back - you can see some points on the end of a few serrations on some of those lvs and the seeds are more like Zelkova serrata now that I spend (too much) time on it. Looking up in the crown too we see the typical limb crowding and a more characteristic hanging of the lvs. Bark isn't typical of zelkova either, though. Dang Ulmaceae and their lvs, you must look at many. Gardenweb: where productivity goes to die, despite my best efforts. Dan

Photo of figs. Slightly smaller then last year.