Honey bees
Nectar value
High
Pollen value
High
Pollinator plant
Almond-Leaved Willow, Almond willow
Salix triandra
Linked agroforestry plant data
Pollinator recipe
Bee value
Who this plant supports
Agroforestry database
Complete plant information
Structure
- Vegetation layer
- Tree
- Size
- Medium
- Dimensions
- 9.00 m high × 9.00 m wide
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifecycle
- Perennial
- Foliage
- Deciduous
Site conditions
- USDA hardiness
- 4-8
- Moisture
- Moist, Wet
- Soil
- Sandy, Loamy, Clay
- pH
- Acid, Neutral, Alkaline
- Light
- Sun
Uses
- Edible parts
- Leaves, Inner bark, Tea
- Functions
- Basketry, Pioneer plant, Windbreak, Timber
- Edibility
- 1 out of 5
- Medicinal value
- 2 out of 5
Inner bark can be eaten both raw and cooked. The bark can be dried and then ground into powder to be added to flour, which can be used to bake bread, for example. The taste is very bitter, especially when the bark is fresh. It can also serve as food during times of food scarcity. Leaves and young shoots can be eaten both raw and cooked, although they are not very tasty. They are mainly consumed in times of scarcity or famine, and the leaves can even be used as a tea substitute.