Characteristics of Willow

Characteristics:

1. Trees or creeping, mat-forming, erect shrubs. Branches cylindrical, pith subrounded. No terminal buds, lateral buds usually close to the branch, bud scales single.

2. Leaves alternate, sparsely opposite, usually narrow and long, mostly lanceolate, pinnately veined, serrate or entire; petiole short; stipules, mostly serrate, often caducous, sparsely persistent. Catkins erect or obliquely spreading, opening before the leaves, or at the same time as the leaves, rarely after the leaves.

3, willow belongs to a wide range of ecological amplitude of plants, the adaptability of the environment is very wide, light-loving, moisture-loving, cold-tolerant, is the middle-growth wet species. But some species are also more resistant to drought and salinity, in the ecological conditions of the poorer places to grow.

Expanded information

Garden value:

Willow species, easy to hybridize. Hybrid growth potential and adaptability, easy asexual reproduction, can be selected from within the natural or artificial hybrid population, through asexual reproduction, to obtain excellent asexual varieties.

Economic value:

The bark of the tree contains tannin; the material is worse than the dry willow, which can be used as utensils and raw materials for papermaking; the willow flakes can be used to fill the chair cushions and pillows; the branches and roots can dispel wind and dampness. Poetry has a cloud: mindless willow into a shade. It shows that the willow tree is extremely easy to survive.

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