Plant id?

[andyoxon]

Any plant/leaf experts out there?  Growing in the front garden, next to a soon to be removed diseased ornamental cherry.  I've done a google image id and it comes up with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulmus_chenmoui  Could it be this?  Thoughts?  I was just going to remove it, and plant a Acer palmatum...  Probably 3/4metres from house & 2m from path.

MysteryPlant1 by a oxon, on Flickr

MysteryPlant1a by a oxon, on Flickr

[rafletcher]

My wife concurs with Google.

[andyoxon]

Ok.  It's small so could be transplanted.  Perhaps I should ask a local arborist/botanist/someone.  Don't really want a 20metre high tree in front garden.  Mind you we get Oaks & Sycamore trees popping up everywhere thanks to the squirrels.

[andyoxon]

So, knowledgeable neighbour says it's cherry and it's sprouting from the trunk but below soil level. Leaves on the new sprout are bigger & much greener than old parent.  Given main tree is diseased unlikely to do well, & may as well dig up.  Elm has much rougher leaves apparently.

[PaulF]

We had an ornamental cherry cut down a few years ago and it’s still throwing out shoots

[Wobbly John]

Looks like a cherry to me.

[andyoxon]

Yep, cherry.