Salix 'Chrysocoma' it is much hardier and more long-lived than the Babylon Willow ("Salix babylonica"). This particular cultivar is easily distinguished from the other Golden Weeping Willow ("S." × "sepulcralis") by its androgynous catkins. A weeping tree, not much more than 22m high. Bark greyish-brown, deeply fissured. Twigs very slender, at first thinly subadpressed pubescent, soon becoming glabrous. Golden- or greenish-yellow in their first year, later becoming olive-green. Catkins appearing with the leaves in April, terminal on very short, spreading, leafy, lateral shoots, peduncle and rhachis softly villose. Catkins male, female or most commonly androgynous. Salix 'Chrysocoma' "Salix" × "sepulcralis" <nowiki>'Chrysocoma'</nowiki>, or
Salix nigra Salix nigra Salix nigra, the black willow, is a species of willow native to eastern North America, from New Brunswick and southern Ontario west to Minnesota, and south to northern Florida and Texas. It is a medium-sized deciduous tree, the largest North American species of willow, growing to tall, exceptionally up to , with a trunk diameter. The bark is dark brown to blackish, becoming fissured in older trees, and frequently forking near the base. The shoots are slender and variable in color from green to brown, yellow or purplish; they are (like the related European "Salix fragilis") brittle at