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2. Withy - Wikipedia

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   A withy or withe (also willow and osier) is a strong flexible willow stem, typically used in thatching, basketmaking, gardening and for constructing woven wattle hurdles. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 1 ] The term is also used to refer to any type of flexible rod of natural wood used in rural crafts such as hazel or ash created through coppicing or pollarding .

3. Pollarding - Wikipedia

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   Wood pollards were pruned at longer intervals of eight to fifteen years, a pruning cycle tending to produce upright poles favored for fencing and boat construction. Supple young willow or hazel branches may be harvested as material for weaving baskets, fences, and garden constructions such as bowers.

4. Wattle (construction) - Wikipedia

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   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 fence.

5. Salix bebbiana - Wikipedia

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   The twigs and branches are used by Native Americans for basket weaving and arrowmaking. [3] Important host plant to 312 species of butterflies and moths Many parts of the plant are consumed by animals, especially domestic cattle, which find the foliage a palatable forage. [3] This species readily hybridizes with several other species of willow. [4]

6. Salix viminalis - Wikipedia

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   Salix viminalis is a multistemmed shrub growing to between 3 and 6 m (9.8 and 19.7 ft) (rarely to 10 m (33 ft)) tall. It has long, erect, straight branches with greenish-grey bark.

7. Pleaching - Wikipedia

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   Hedge laid using pleaching. Pleaching or plashing is a technique of interweaving living and dead branches through a hedge creating a fence, hedge or lattices. [1] Trees are planted in lines, and the branches are woven together to strengthen and fill any weak spots until the hedge thickens. [2]