Salix x sericans Tausch ex A.Kern. APNI* 
Description: Robust bush or small tree to c. 9 m high, with lightly fissured bark and spreading branches; twigs yellowish or reddish, ashy-white at first becoming ± glabrous.
Leaves ovate- to lanceolate. 6–12 cm long, 13–30 mm wide, dull green and glabrescent above, densely grey tomentose below (very soft to the touch); margins recurved, with small teeth or almost entire.
Catkins on tips of the twigs; male catkins cylindrical, 2–3 cm long; female catkins longer and up to 5 cm long.
Distribution and occurrence: a relic of cultivation in Britain, where it was grown for basketry.
NSW subdivisions: *ST
Hybrid involving Salix cinerea and S. viminalis (Australian Plant Census, accessed May 2017). Sometimes reported as Salix caprea x S. viminalis (e.g. Jacobs & Murray (2000).
Text by S.W.L. Jacobs & L. Murray (2000)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 Suppl. (2000)
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