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Salix alba 'Vitellina' ( golden willow; syn. Salix alba var. vitellina (L.) Stokes) is a cultivar grown in gardens for its shoots, which are golden-yellow for one to two years before turning brown. It is particularly decorative in winter; the best effect is achieved by coppicing it every two to three years to stimulate the production of longer ...
Salix tetrasperma, commonly called Indian willow, is a medium-sized tree of wet and swampy places, shedding its leaves at the end of monsoon season. It flowers after leafing. The bark is rough, with deep, vertical fissures and the young shoots leaves are silky. The leaves are lance-like, or ovate-lancelike, 8–15 cm long, with minutely and ...
Willow branches are used during the synagogue service on Hoshana Rabbah, the seventh day of Sukkot. In Buddhism, a willow branch is one of the chief attributes of Guanyin, the bodhisattva of compassion. [citation needed] In traditional pictures of Guanyin, she is often shown seated on a rock with a willow branch in a vase of water at her side.
Description. Salix nigra is a medium-sized deciduous tree, the largest North American species of willow, growing to 10–30 m (35–100 ft) tall, exceptionally up to 45 m (148 ft), with a trunk 50–80 centimeters (20–30 in) diameter. The bark is dark brown to blackish, becoming fissured in older trees, and frequently forking near the base. [ 3]
The panicles are 15–30 cm (6–12 in) long and have whorled, 25–50 mm (1–2 in) long branches. [6] The spikelets are in pairs, and there are three stamens. The plant stems are erect and stiff. They can survive deep water flow. Under clear water, the plant can survive up to two months. The root system of vetiver is finely structured and ...
Water sprouts or water shoots are shoots that arise from the trunk of a tree or from branches that are several years old, from latent buds. [1] The latent buds might be visible on the bark of the tree, or submerged under the bark as epicormic buds. They are sometimes called suckers, although that term is more correctly applied to shoots that ...
A willow flute. A small number of cultivars have been selected for garden use. The most common is S. caprea 'Kilmarnock', discovered by James Smith, with stiffly pendulous shoots forming a mop-head; it is a male clone. A similar female clone is S. caprea 'Weeping Sally'.
Putting in her two cents. Pink spoke to her 9-year-old daughter, Willow, about her “wishes” for the presidential election. See Pink and Carey Hart’s Family Album Read article “Well, my ...