Willow Identification Key: Salix x sepulcralis Chrysocoma

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Habit: Medium sized tree, up to 15-20 m high, spreading crown with pendulous branches.

Shoots: Golden yellow in first season, becoming greyish yellow in 3rd year; slender, moderately brittle, silky when young, soon without hairs

Leaves: 4-15 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, lanceolate to narrow elliptic; margins finely serrate; bright green above, bluish green below; silky to touch on both sides at first, becoming hairless.

Catkins: Mainly male; narrow-cylindrical, slightly curved, distinctly stalked; 2-5 cm long; appearing with leaves, September- October.

Comments: Very pendulous twigs, thought to be a hybrid between S. alba var. vitellina and S. babylonica.