Honey bees
Nectar value
High
Pollen value
High
Pollinator plant
Weeping Willow
Salix babylonica
Linked agroforestry plant data
Pollinator recipe
Bee value
Who this plant supports
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Complete plant information
Structure
- Vegetation layer
- Tree
- Size
- Medium
- Dimensions
- 15.00 m high × 10.00 m wide
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifecycle
- Perennial
- Foliage
- Deciduous
Site conditions
- USDA hardiness
- 6-9
- Moisture
- Moist, Wet
- Soil
- Sandy, Loamy, Clay
- pH
- Acid, Neutral
- Light
- Sun
Uses
- Edible parts
- Leaves, Inner bark, Manna
- Functions
- Basketry
- Edibility
- 1 out of 5
- Medicinal value
- 3 out of 5
Bark can be eaten both raw and cooked. It can be dried, ground into a powder, and mixed with grain flour to make, for example, bread. The taste of bark is very bitter and is usually only consumed when other food sources are not available. Young shoots and flower buds of this plant can be cooked, but they are considered not very tasty. The older leaves are used to contaminate tea. Bark is also a source of a certain substance.