Botanical name: Salix viminalis    Family: Salicaceae (Willow family)
Synonyms: Salix capraeformis, Salix rufescens, Salix longifolia

Basket Willow is a much branched shrub or tree, with twigs silvery woolly. Leaf stipulate are small, linear-lanceshaped; leaf-stalk 4-12 mm; blade 12-20 x 0.5-2 cm, linear lanceshaped, margins often curled, upper surface hoary to glabrate, silvery silky beneath, lateral veins 25-30 pairs, entire or slightly wavy, rarely sawtoothed. Leaf-stalks are 0.25-1.5 cm long. Catkins are cylindrical, 1.5-5 cm long; appearing before or as leaves emerge, stalkless or nearly so, ebracteate or bracteate. Male catkins are 2.5-3 cm long, 1.5 cm broad, silky. Rachis densely silky. Bracts lanceshaped with long silky hairs. Stamens 2, filaments free or rarely somewhat fused. Female catkins are 3-5 cm long, elongating up to 6 cm in fruit. Bracts as in the male. Capsules are silky, 4-5 mm long. Flowering: April-June. Basket Willow is found in Central Europe to Siberia, Xinjiang and Western Himalaya.

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