Giant pussy willow
Salix chaenomeloides · Salicaceae · 왕버들
How to spot it
New leaves are reddish, the leaf underside is white, and the stipules are ear-shaped.
Look
- Leaves
- Elliptic or long-elliptic, 3 to 10 cm long, reddish when newly emerged. Glossy green above, whitish beneath, with fine inward-curved teeth (more than 40) on the margin and ear-shaped stipules.
- Flowers
- Catkins open in April together with the leaves. Male catkins are 4 to 5 cm long and point upward; female catkins are 5 to 8 cm long and stand at a slant.
- Fruit
- The capsule is egg-shaped, 3 mm long, in fruit spikes 5 to 10 cm long, ripening in late May to early June.
- Bark
- The bark is gray-brown and deeply fissured. One-year-old twigs are yellow-green, the hairs soon fall off, and there are many round or elliptic lenticels.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Native (Korean Peninsula)
- Native to
- Also found in Japan, Taiwan and China; in Korea it grows in Chungcheong and south of Gangwon-teukbyeoljachi-do.
- Ecology
- Grows by water at 50 to 1,000 m elevation.