Common name: Pussy Willow
Salix x reichardtii A.Kern. APNI* 
Description: Erect mainly multi-stemmed shrub or small tree to 6 m sometimes more, crown often rather narrow in outline; bark smooth, pale grey, shallowly fissured near base of trunk; twigs densely pilose at first, olive green to deep red-brown, sparsely striate; buds red-brown, densely hairy becoming glabrous and shiny.
Leaves broad-elliptic to elliptic-obovate, 4–10.5 cm long, 20–45 mm wide, dark green and glossy above, densely puberulous below; margins irregularly serrate, with glandular teeth; stipules auriculate or ovate acuminate to 13 mm long.
Catkins (male only) very dense-flowered, ovoid or short-cylindric, 2–3.5 cm long; stamens 2.
Flowering: October.
Distribution and occurrence: naturalised on river/lake banks. Native of Europe and possibly Asia. Grows on river and lake banks.
NSW subdivisions: *NT, *ST
Other Australian states: *Vic. *Tas. *S.A.
Hybrid taxon involving Salix caprea x S. cinerea subsp. oleifolia or subsp. cinerea.
Text by S.W.L. Jacobs & L. Murray (2000)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 Suppl. (2000)
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