The Roanoke Park European White Elm

By the city's own estimate, this elm's crown is as wide as the tree is tall: 76 feet each way. It is a European white elm, Ulmus laevis, an unusual elm to find in Seattle, and the city lists it as a Heritage Tree. Those numbers come from Seattle's street-tree inventory, which also gives the trunk as 50 inches across, about 13 feet round, and the height as roughly 23 metres. That inventory is the only source we have for this tree, the species included, and the pin on our map is the city's own coordinate for the trunk. A city crew last checked it in August 2019 and recorded it in service. We found no later sighting we could tie to this tree, so 2019 is the latest firm word on it. Roanoke Park is a small neighbourhood park between Eastlake and Portage Bay, free and open from four in the morning until half past eleven at night. About 700 metres away on Roanoke Street stands a Heritage Lombardy poplar, which turns this into a short walk past two of the city's listed trees. Nobody has published an age for this elm. If you know when it went in, or remember it as a smaller tree, tell us.