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Carl Farmer |
Occasional on wet ground or beside water on less acid soils. A leggy shrub to 3 m high. Leaves 4-10 cm long on stalks 3-10 mm. Skye ID: Leaves more or less in opposite pairs rather than alternately arranged as in other willows. Other features: Leaves hairless (except sometimes when very young), widest well above the middle, tapering to the base. Young twigs purplish, in second year grey-brown or cane-coloured, all twigs hairless. Catkins in early Spring, in more or less opposite pairs, on very short stalks, with black-tipped scales. |
