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 fragilis frequently with the type. It is a smaller shrubby tree, rarely exceeding tall, with completely hairless leaves up to 9 cm long and 2–3 cm broad. According to some botanists, it is a distinct species (treated as "Salix decipiens" Hoffm.), with, in this view, "S. fragilis" then being a hybrid between "S. decipiens" and "S. alba". Some other botanists regard "S. decipiens" as itself being a hybrid between "S. fragilis" and "S. triandra". Little evidence supports either of these suggestions. It readily forms natural hybrids with white willow "S. alba" in Europe and Asia, the hybrid being named "Salix" ×