Hi, can you help me identify this plant?

I'm really not sure but those leaves remind me of Ulmus (Elm). Hopefully someone will be along soon and be able to offer an exact ID.

Does Ulmus mexicana grow in Costa Rica? Check out these leaf images for comparison: https://www.bing.com/images/se...

Thank you, in another forum someone suggested it's Carpinus caroliniana (American Hornbeam), what do you think of that?

The leaves do also resemble those of American Hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana)



I'm not familiar with flora of Costa Rica so I don't even know if either of those grow in your area. Hopefully others will be along shortly with suggestions.

Thank you for your replay, this plant is unnecessarily native, it was planted here and originally can be from other places, but if you know a forum that is more about tropical and forest plants I would love to hear about it.

I grow Carpinus caroliniana. It's called Hornbeam in my neck of the woods. I'm pretty sure that isn't it. However there are quite a few other species of Carpinus. It may be one of them.

Not Carpinus sp. - look at the dentations/serrations on the leaf margin. The unknown has very regular dentations. Carpinus sp. is nothing if not possessed of the most ragged edged irregular serrulations - or some term like that.

Looked it up: sharply and doubly serrate.

I suspect it is a truly tropical species with characteristics similar to temperate plants. How about a Castanea sp., since we are WAG-ing?

I'd suspect something in the Annonaceae family.

Thank you ViburnumValley, I think it is Castanea sp.

I would also suggest another possibility; a member of dilleniaceae, leaves bears resemblance of Dillenia indica