Salix caprea

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When yellow-grey catkins sprout on the Kilmarnock Willow's exposed weeping branches, you know spring has arrived in your garden. The Salix caprea 'Kilmarnock' is a tiny deciduous tree that forms an excellent architectural showpiece. The weeping branches produce a dense, spherical dome that holds its shape throughout time. In the autumn, the green summer foliage turns gold, before the stems go naked once more, revealing a beautiful winter silhouette. Kilmarnock Willow is an excellent choice…

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Salix caprea (Pussy Willow) is a rounded large shrub or small deciduous tree boasting broadly elliptic dark green leaves adorned with a felty coating of fine gray hairs underneath. Before the foliage emerges in late winter or early spring, male trees produce a showy display of fat, silky, pinkish gray catkins, 1-2 in. long (2-5 cm), which become yellow when ripe with pollen. Female trees produce longer green catkins. This willow is among the first flowering plants in the spring, the catkins…

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Botanical Name: Salix caprea. Other Common Names: Pussy willow, great sallow, saule des chèvres (French), selja (Icelandic), seljepil (Danish), salweide (German), selje (Norwegian), sälg (Swedish), raita (Finnish). Habitat: Goat willow is native to Europe and western and central Asia. It does not tolerate full shade and is often found growing in open fields, in forest edges or forests that are not overgrown and along beaches, streams, lakes, and roadsides. Description: Goat willow is a…

Salix caprea (Kilmarnock) pendula