Weeping Willow - Salix x chrysocoma, species information page

Weeping Willow - Salix x chrysocoma

Distinctive hybrid of Chinese Weeping Willow (Salix babylonica) and White Willow (Salix alba), growing to a height of about 12m. Popular ornamental tree often grown by water and in damp places, parks and gardens. Long thin trailing branches of yellow twigs and lanceolate leaves, bright green on top, green-blue below. Male ♂ catkins are found on differing trees to the female ♀. Flowers when the leaves appear in April to May, catkins to 8cm sometimes on the same spike.

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