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Weeping Willow

Salix babylonica · Salicaceae · 수양버들

How to spot it

Marked by long drooping branches, narrow toothed leaves, and the gray-green underside of the leaf.

Look

Leaves
Alternate, narrow lanceolate simple leaves with fine teeth.
Flowers
In spring, female and male flowers grow in catkins on different trees. The male catkins show stamens with no petals.
Fruit
A capsule that ripens from green to brown and splits, releasing small seeds wrapped in cottony fluff.
Bark
Gray-brown to gray-black bark that splits irregularly.

Where it grows

In Korea
Planted
Native to
East Asia, including China.
Ecology
Grows fast in very wet places; in the United States it is recorded as a larval host plant of the viceroy butterfly.

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