It is a large tree or shrub, a pioneer tree, grows to a height of 10 to 15 m, lives for approximately 60 years
Botanical description
Habitus: broom-shaped and irregular crown, the trunk is up to 50 cm in diameter, the bark is gray, green and smooth, longitudinally cracked dark gray, furrowed, the buds are ovoid-conical, the shoots are hairy red-brown; leaves are 3 to 4 mm long, flowers up to 8 mm long
Leaf: simple, alternate, elliptic leaves, the leaf blade is elliptic to inverted ovoid, 5 to 11 cm long and 3 to 5 cm wide, with 7 to 11 pairs of veins, dark green on the face, glaucous to bare, gray-white on the back, felty, with pronounced veining, the petiole of the leaves is 15 to 30 mm long
Flower: it blooms in March to April, the flowers are short catkins, the fruits contain downy seeds, spread by the wind over long distances
Fruits: a large gray fluffy conical capsule with a long stem, the capsules are grouped in fringed large clusters
Growth conditions / Cultivation / Care
beekeeping tree, honey-bearing
landscaping around water areas
light-loving, undemanding to soil
annual rings are not very prominent
Gallery
Use / Function and landscape
Hybridizes with other species
high production of biomass
foodsource for wildlife
group planting
solitaire
Special use
Biomass production
Reproduction
Wooden cutting
Varieties
Salix cinerea, „Pendula“, „Kilmarnock“
Diseases and pests
Diptera-Rabdophaga rosaria, Rabdophaga salicis, Iteomyia capreae, parasitic species Euura mucronata, from the Hymenoptera family, mite, Aculus tetanothrix, fungal pathogen Rhytisma salicinum
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