Trees or shrubs. Flowers appearing before or after the leaves, in usually erect catkins, bracts entire or toothed; each flower with 1-2 fleshy glands; stamens 2-many.
Worldwide: About 500 species, mainly north temperate but some tropical and south temperate.
Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Stefaan Dondeyne 2007-13
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Dondeyne, S.(2013). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Salix. http://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=461, retrieved 22 May 2013
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