| Thick-Branch Willow |
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| Original date | 6/17/19 8:26 PM |
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| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/400s |
| Aperture | 8.0 |
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| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
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Botanical name: Salix disperma Family: Salicaceae (Willow family)
Synonyms: Salix wallichiana, Salix pachyclada, Salix julacea
Synonyms: Salix wallichiana, Salix pachyclada, Salix julacea
Thick-Branch Willow is a trees up to 10 m tall, with
branches dull brown, hairless; juvenile branchlets nearly hairless.
Buds are narrowly ovoid, hairless, tip pointed. Stipules are obliquely
ovate, glandular, sawtoothed; leaf-stalk 1-1.5 cm, hairless. Leaves are
ovate to linear-lanceshaped, 6-16 x 2.5-4.5 cm, below pale, powdery,
above green, hairless, shiny, base wedge-shaped or nearly round, margin
sawtoothed, tip tapering. Flowering serotinous. Male catkins are about
10 cm x 6 mm; flower-cluster-stalk 1.5-2 cm, with 2 or 3 hairy
leaflets. Female catkins are nearly as long as male catkin; bracts like
those of male catkin, about as long as stipes. Capsules are ovoid,
hairless. Thick-Branch Willow is found in Afghanistan, the Himalayas, from
Kashmir to Bhutan, Assam, Tibet, N. Burma and China, at altitudes of
1500-3500 m.
Flowering: March-June.
| Identification credit: Ashutosh Sharma | Photographed in Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh & Dhanaulti, Uttarakhand. |
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