Salix balsamifera


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Lifespan: perennial
Origin: ?
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Read about Salix balsamifera in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Salix balsamifera. A much-branched clean-looking shrub, with shining colored twigs, sometimes almost tree-like: glabrous: lvs. short-oval to lance-oblong, rounded and sometimes somewhat cordate at base, glandular-serrulate, thinnish and fragrant, dark green above and pale or glaucous and also prominently reticulate beneath: fertile aments becoming lax and open, the slender pedicels of the carpels much longer than the glands, the style short. Along the northern borders of the U. S. and far northward; an attractive species.


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