Common name: White Willow
Salix alba var. alba L. APNI* 
Description: Tree with globose crown to 20 m high; sometimes with several stems diverging from ground level; bark grey-brown and deeply fissured; twigs brown or olive-green, at first densely silky, often becoming glabrous, not fragile; buds dark-brown, pointed, pubescent.
Leaves lanceolate, 5–12 cm long, 5–15 mm wide, persistently silky above, under surface grey or glaucescent, margins regularly toothed.
Catkins terminal, elongate-cylindrical, appearing with leaves on short leafy shoots; male catkins many-flowered, 3–9 cm long; female catkins smaller than male, 3–6 cm long.
Capsule c. 4 mm long.
Distribution and occurrence: native of Europe.
NSW subdivisions: *CT
Other Australian states: *Vic. *S.A.
Text by S.W.L. Jacobs & L. Murray (2000)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 Suppl. (2000)
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