Salix triandra L.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Salix triandra' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/salix/salix-triandra/). Accessed 2025-06-12.

Family

  • Salicaceae

Genus

Synonyms

  • S. amygdalina L.

Glossary

apex
(pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
glaucous
Grey-blue often from superficial layer of wax (bloom).
ovary
Lowest part of the carpel containing the ovules; later developing into the fruit.
sessile
Lacking a stem or stalk.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Salix triandra' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/salix/salix-triandra/). Accessed 2025-06-12.

A shrub or small tree up to 30 ft high, of erect habit; bark flaking, brown when freshly exposed; young shoots glabrous, or downy and soon becoming glabrous, angled or furrowed. Leaves quite glabrous on both surfaces, lance-shaped, rounded or wedge-shaped at the base, tapered to a fine point, finely toothed, 2 to 4 in. long, 58 to 1 in. wide, dark green above, green or glaucous beneath; stalk 14 to 12 in. long, with a few glands near the apex. Stipules well developed on sterile shoots, 316 to 38 in. wide, usually persistent. Catkins produced in April or May (or sporadically throughout the summer) on short leafy shoots; scales yellowish, thinly hairy, deciduous. Male catkins up to 212 in. long; stamens three, anthers yellow, filaments hairy at the base. Female catkins shorter than the male; ovary flask-shaped, glabrous, stalked, with sessile stigmas.

S. triandra is of wide distribution in temperate Eurasia. It is one of the most valuable of the basket-willows, and has been so widely planted that its natural distribution in the British Isles is uncertain, but it is probably genuinely native in south-east and parts of central England in wet, low-lying places. The osiers known under the trade names of ‘Black Hollander’, ‘Black Italian’, ‘Black Mauls’, ‘French’, ‘Jelstiver’, ‘Mottled Spaniards’, ‘Pomeranian’, all belong to this species.