Salix - Willows
Salicaceae
Our Salix
Comprising some 300 species, this genus provides sufficient possibilities for a wide variety of tasks. In addition to purely practical shrubs, there are decorative varieties with attractive catkins and others with colourful shoots or bizarre, ornamental branching. Salix species are dioecious; numerous varieties flower conspicuously before the leaves shoot. Only the male flowers develop into furry, silvery shimmering catkins that turn yellow when opening with their numerous stamen, giving off a balsamic, sweet fragrance. The female catkins remain an inconspicuous grey-green.
Variety overview
Indigenous wild varieties
Dwarf- and small shrubs
Medium size and large shrubs
- Salix acutifolia 'Pendulifolia'
- Salix aurita
- Salix balsamifera mas
- Salix caprea
- Salix cinerea
- Salix elaeagnos
- Salix fragilis
- Salix fragilis 'Bullata'
- Salix matsudana 'Tortuosa'
- Salix purpurea
- Salix purpurea 'Nana'
- Salix purpurea 'Pendula'
- Salix sachalinensis 'Sekka'
- Salix smithiana
- Salix triandra
- Salix viminalis
Small and medium size trees
Large trees
Catkin willows
(male varieties only)
- Salix acutifolia 'Pendulifolia'
- Salix aurita
- Salix balsamifera mas
- Salix caprea
- Salix caprea 'Kilmarnock'
- Salix caprea 'Weeping Sally'
- Salix caprea 'Mas'
- Salix caprea 'Silberglanz'
- Salix daphnoides 'Praecox'
- Salix daphnoides pomeranica
- Salix hastata 'Wehrhahnii'
- Salix helvetica
- Salix lanata
- Salix repens argentea
- Salix rosmarinifolia
- Salix smithiana
- Salix viminalis