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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 ...
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.
A plant cutting is a piece of a plant that is used in horticulture for vegetative (asexual) propagation. A piece of the stem or root of the source plant is placed in a suitable medium such as moist soil. If the conditions are suitable, the plant piece will begin to grow as a new plant independent of the parent, a process known as striking.
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 ...
A line of willow pollards near Sluis, Zeeland, Netherlands. Pollarding is a pruning system involving the removal of the upper branches of a tree, which promotes the growth of a dense head of foliage and branches. In ancient Rome, Propertius mentioned pollarding during the 1st century BCE. [ 1] The practice has occurred commonly in Europe since ...
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]
Wattle (construction) A wattle fence at an outdoor museum in Poland. Wattle hurdle or panel. A wattle hurdle being constructed on a frame. Wattle is made by weaving flexible branches around upright stakes to form a woven lattice. The wattle may be made into an individual panel, commonly called a hurdle, or it may be formed into a continuous ...
The flowers are soft silky, and silvery 3-7-cm-long catkins are produced in early spring before the new leaves appear; the male and female catkins are on different plants ( dioecious ). The male catkins mature yellow at pollen release, the female catkins mature pale green. Female catkins. Male catkins. The fruit is a small capsule 5–10 mm ...