Wicker crimson

The wicker crimson or willow crimson ( Salix purpurea ) is small a Saule a height from 1 to 2 m which can exeptionnellement push until 6m. It draws its name from the color of its flowers, frequently crimsons, which appear at the beginning of spring.

Biological characters:

Shrub of 1 with 6m, caducifolié, low longevity

Dioïque, flowering March at April before foliation , Pollinated by insects, dispersed by wind

pionnière

Fast identification:

bulky Port , often in ball. Salix purpurea is the only French representative of the kind Salix whose sheets (and buds) appear opposite or subopposées. The limb of its sheets is finely dentil, elliptic, with face glaucous inferior . Its branches are opposite and dark crimson . Its male flowers have their Anthère S reds

Thorough identification:

branches hails, flexible, glabrous, brilliant, opposite and dark crimson
smooth buds and luisants
sheets subopposées, Sessile S, oblong (3 with 10cm) in corner at the base, extended and denticulées to the top, green and luisantes above, glaucous lower parts
Kittens unisexués with black and red and hairy Bractée S
male Fleur with 2 entirely welded cheesecloth S and Anthère S reds
female Fleur with pubescent ovary and very short Style
Sessile Capsule and tormenteuse

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