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
Stigmella salicis a blotch, or if highly contorted with 'S' bends, a false blotch. The larvae feed on "Myrica gale", "Salix alba", "Salix atrocinerea", "Salix aurita", "Salix babylonica", "Salix caprea", "Salix cinerea", "Salix daphnoides", "Salix fragilis", "Salix lanata", "Salix pentandra", "Salix purpurea", "Salix repens", "Salix silesiaca", "Salix triandra" and "Salix viminalis". Mines on the narrow-leaved willows can be difficult to distinguish from those of "S. obliquella". The pupa is in a yellowish-brown cocoon spun in detritus and can be found in July and August, and from November through to April. "S. salicis" is found in Europe (except Iceland and Greece). Stigmella salicis