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Water-elm Planera aquatica is single species in the southeastern U.S.A., a small deciduous tree similar to an ElmElms are deciduous trees of the genus Ulmus family Ulmaceae. They have alternate, simple, single- or doubly-serrate leaves, usually with asymmetric bases, often rough with fine bristles. The fruit is a round samara . There are between 20 to 45 species of but with a small prickly berry instead of a dry, winged seed. It grows, as the name suggests, on wet sites.