Salix arizonica - Arizona Willow

General Information Common Name  Arizona Willow Scientific Name  Salix arizonica Sun Tolerance  Full Sun Height  2 - 3 m (6.8-10 ft) Spread  2 - 3 m (6.8 - 10 ft) Growth Rate  Fast Bloom Time  Spring Color  Green, Flower Color  Yellow Type  Shrub Native  USA, Europe.

Classification Kingdom  Plantae – Plants Subkingdom  Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants Division  Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants Class  Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons Subclass  Dilleniidae Order  Salicales Family  Salicaceae – Willow family Genus  Salix L. – Willow Species  S. arizonica

Salix arizonica - Arizona Willow

Salix arizonica commonly known as Arizona Willow. It is native to the southwestern United States, where it occurs in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.

This shrub varies in size and shape, occurring in low mats or upright, sometimes forming thickets. It is a deciduous tree. It grows 2 – 3 m (6.8 – 10 ft) in height. The branches are often bright red in color, while the smaller twigs are yellowish, reddish, or brownish, with a coating of hairs. The leaves are green in color, oval in shape and have smooth or serrated margins. The shiny leaf blades are 1-5 cm long. The inflorescence is a catkin. It blooms in late spring.

Salix arizonica - Arizona Willow Flowers

Salix arizonica - Arizona Willow Flowers Before Blooms

Salix arizonica - Arizona Willow

Salix babylonica - Babylon Willow - Weeping Willow

General Information Common Name  Babylon Willow, Weeping Willow Scientific Name  Salix babylonica Sun Tolerance  Full Sun Height  20 - 25 m (66-82 ft) Spread  10 - 15 m (33 - 50 ft) Growth Rate  Fast Bloom Time  Spring Color  Green, Flower Color  Yellow Type  Tree Native  USA, Asia, Europe.

Classification Kingdom  Plantae – Plants Subkingdom  Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants Division  Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants Class  Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons Subclass  Dilleniidae Order  Salicales Family  Salicaceae – Willow family Genus  Salix L. – Willow Species  S. babylonica

Salix babylonica commonly known as Babylon Willow also known as Weeping Willow or Peking Willow. It is native to dry areas of northern China, but cultivated for millennia elsewhere in Asia, being traded along the Silk Road to southwest Asia and Europe. 

Salix babylonica - Babylon Willow - Weeping Willow

S. babylonica is a medium- to large-sized deciduous tree. It grows 20–25 m (66–82 ft) in height. It grows rapidly, but has a short lifespan, between 40 to 75 years. The shoots are yellowish-brown, with small buds. The leaves are alternate and spirally arranged, narrow and the color is light green. They are 4-16 cm long and 0.5-2 cm broad, with finely serrate margins and long culminate tips, and they become a gold-yellow color in autumn. It blooms in early spring. The flowers are also deciduous that arranged in catkins, yellow color, with the male and female catkins on separate trees. 

S. babylonica, especially its pendulous-branched form, has been introduced into many other areas, including Europe and the southeastern United States, but beyond China, it has not generally been as successfully cultivated as some of its hybrid derivatives, being sensitive to late-spring frosts. In the more humid climates of much of Europe and eastern North America, it is susceptible to a canker disease.

This weeping willow can be a spectacular specimen at the edge of a pond with its branches gracefully weeping down to touch the water, however, it is often very difficult to site this tree in a residential landscape. It is a popular ornamental tree in northern China, and is also grown for wood production and shelter belts there, being particularly important around the oases of the Gobi Desert, protecting agricultural land from desert winds.

Salix babylonica - Babylon Willow - Weeping Willow

Babylon Willow Leaves

Leaves of Babylon Willow

Leaves of Salix babylonica

Babylon Willow Flowers

Flowers of Babylon Willow

Babylon Willow Flowers before bloom

Flowers of Salix babylonica 

Babylon Willow Bark

Salix babylonica Bark

Salix babylonica - Babylon Willow - Weeping Willow

Salix babylonica - Babylon Willow - Weeping Willow

Salix babylonica - Babylon Willow - Weeping Willow

Babylon Willow reached to water

Salix caprea – Goat Willow – Sallow

General Information Common Name  Goat Willow, Sallow Scientific Name  Salix caprea Sun Tolerance  Full Sun Height  8 - 10 m (26-33 ft) Spread  6 -8 m (20 - 30 ft) Growth Rate  Fast Bloom Time  Spring Color  Green, Flower Color  Yellow Type  Tree Native  USA, Asia, Europe.

Classification Kingdom  Plantae – Plants Subkingdom  Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants Division  Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants Class  Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons Subclass  Dilleniidae Order  Salicales Family  Salicaceae – Willow family Genus  Salix L. – Willow Species  S. caprea

Salix caprea – Goat Willow – Sallow

Salix caprea common name is Goat Willow also know as Sallow is native to Europe and western and central Asia. It is a deciduous shrub or small tree, it grows 8–10 m (26–33 ft) in height, some time it grows up to 13 m (43 ft). Goat Willow (so called because goats readily browse it) is a pleasant small tree, well known for the early appearance in spring of its silver (female) or golden (male) catkins or ‘palm’, followed by oval, not slender, leaves. Other names for it are Sallow and pussy Willow.

The twigs are smooth and reddish-brown, and carry round yellow-green winter buds concealed in single scale which becomes weather-reddened towards the top. The oval leaves, 1-2 inches long, have a wavy margin and a pointed tip. They are lighter and hairy on the underside, and have two prominent stipules – little leaflets – at the base of the stalk.

The sexes are never on the same tree. The female catkins begin to appear in January or February as attractive silvery-downy flower heads. The erect male catkins have showy golden anthers which open in March. The seeds are small and hairy.

The bark is smooth, greenish-brown at first, becoming dark brown on older trees. The wood is pale cream to pinkish-brown, and woolly, but it is rarely used. Like other willows, Sallow coppices with much vigor. It is a very pretty component of mixed broad-leaved woodland and of some usefulness as a natural pioneer species, being able to establish itself on all types of waste ground.

Salix caprea – Goat Willow – Sallow

Salix caprea Leaves

Leaves of Goat Willow

Salix caprea – Goat Willow Leaves

Flowers of Goat Willow 

Salix caprea Flowers

Flowers of Salix caprea 

Salix caprea – Goat Willow – Sallow

Salix caprea – Goat Willow – Sallow

 Goat Willow with seeds cotton

Salix caprea – Goat Willow – Sallow

Salix caprea Bark

The Bark of Goat Willow

Salix caprea – Goat Willow – Sallow

Salix caprea – Goat Willow – Sallow

Salix caprea – Goat Willow – Sallow

Salix caprea – Goat Willow – Sallow

Salix caprea – Goat Willow – Sallow