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Botanical details
- Family
- Salicaceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Genus
Salix
- Genus description
Salix are deciduous shrubs and trees of diverse habit, with simple leaves and tiny flowers in catkins, male and female usually on separate plants. Some are valued for their brightly coloured winter shoots, others for their foliage or showy male catkins
- Name status
Accepted
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