Black Willow Tree (Salix Nigra) – 3 Pack Of 1.5 Quart Pots

A fine textured tree providing a soft, cloudlike appearance in the landscape, Salix nigra, commonly called Black Willow for its dark trunk bark, is a fast-growing tree which appreciates life on the wet side. In the wild, you might see it thriving in consistently moist to wet soils of floodplains or around stream and river banks, swamps, marshes, and ponds or lakes. Depending on soil moisture, it can add 2 or more feet in height per year typically reaching 30 to 60 feet tall and equally as wide. In optimum growing conditions it can reach a height of 80 feet or more. It often forms multiple curved trunks 12 to 24 inches in diameter topped with a broad, rounded to irregular crown clothed in narrow, elongated medium to dark green leaves up to 6 inches long that turn to yellow to chartreuse shades in fall. The attractive bark is dark brown to blackish developing deep grooves with shaggy scales as it ages. Black Willow is a fine addition to natural areas where the soil stays moist to wet.

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