Description from
Flora of China
Trees to 20 m tall; trunk to 80 cm d.b.h.; bark dull blackish gray, furrowed. Branchlets pendulous, grayish green or slightly yellow, at first with white hairs, glabrescent. Buds glabrous. Stipules oblong-ovate, small; petiole 1-4 mm; leaf blade lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, 10-16 × 1-1.7 cm, abaxially whitish, adaxially green, slightly shiny, both surfaces usually puberulent along midvein, base narrowly cuneate, margin serrulate, apex long acuminate. Male catkin 1-2 cm; peduncle short, with 2 or 3 leaflets; bracts elliptic, ca. 1.5 mm, abaxially villous proximally, adaxially glabrous, apex obtuse. Male flower: adaxial gland broader than abaxial gland; stamens 2, ca. 3 × as long as bracts, base pilose; anthers yellow, globose. Female catkin 1-2 cm; bracts ovate, abaxially pilose, adaxially glabrous, apex minutely rounded. Female flower: gland adaxial; ovary ovoid, proximally downy; style shorter than ovary; stigma 2-4-lobed. Fl. Apr, fr. May.
A. K. Skvortsov postulates that this species may be an individual clone of Salix babylonica.
Used for weaving wicker baskets, timber, and reforestation.
Liaoning [Korea]