An elegant name for wicker

Alias: willow (picking), willow (planting grass), weeping willow, Xiao Yang (speaking), willow (herbal supplement), green willow (seeking the grassland), walking willow, hanging willow (convenient for vegetation), water willow and Qingming willow.

Willow is a tall deciduous tree with wide distribution and strong vitality. Is one of the common tree species, weeping willow is also a common street tree in landscaping, with high ornamental value and low cost, which is deeply loved by greening everywhere. Mainly distributed in Zhejiang, Hunan, Jiangsu and Anhui. Branchlets slender and pendulous, yellow-brown. Leaves alternate, lanceolate or strip-lanceolate, 8 ~ 16 cm long, tapering at the top, wedge-shaped at the base, young leaves hairless or slightly hairy, serrate, stipules lanceolate. Stamens 2, filaments separated, anthers yellow, glands 2. Female flower ovary sessile, gland 1. Flowering in March-April; The fruit ripens from April to June.

Trees, as high as12-18m, spread and evacuate the crown. Bark is grayish black and irregularly cracked; Branches thin, drooping, light brown, light brown or purplish, glabrous. Bud linear, apex acute. Leaves are narrowly lanceolate or linear lanceolate, 9-16cm long and 0.5-1.5cm wide, with tapered tips, wedge-shaped base, hairless or slightly hairy sides, green top, light bottom and serrated edges; Petiole length (3) 5-10mm, pubescent; Stipules are only born on budding branches, obliquely lanceolate or ovoid, with toothed edges. Inflorescence leaves open first, or at the same time with leaves; Male inflorescence is 1.5-2 (3) cm long, with short peduncle and hairy axis; Stamens 2, filaments nearly equal to or longer than bracts, with long hair, red and yellow anthers at the base; Bracts lanceolate, hairy outside; Gland 2; The female inflorescence is 2-3(5) cm long, with peduncle, 3-4 leaflets at the base, and the inflorescence axis is hairy; Ovary elliptic, glabrous or slightly hairy below, sessile or subsessile, short style, stigma 2-4 parted; Bracts lanceolate, ca. 1.8-2(2.5) mm long, hairy outside; Gland 1. The capsule is 3-4 mm long and yellow-green-brown. The flowering period is from March to April, and the fruiting period is from April to May.