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By Ava Gates
The goat willow is more abundant in forests than any other willow. Its range includes all of Europe and extends far into Asia. It grows from lowland to high mountain elevations and, unlike other willows, is an important pioneer in forests where its seedlings colonize forest clearings and felled areas.
The goat willow is a shrub or small tree 3 to 10 metres high with a broad, broom-shaped crown. It reaches an age of 40 to 60 years or more. The bark is smooth and grey, with rhomboid lenticels. The twigs are stout, the buds ovoid, and the branches with their large catkins, that appear before the leaves, are popular heralds of spring, being among the first wild flowers to be sold at flower stalls. During the flowering period in March the goat willow is a very attractive ornamental, male individuals resembling a large yellow bouquet at this time.
The wood is soft, light and flexible and is used mainly for the building of boats, making wooden shoes, cellulose and cricket bats; the supple young stems are used for basketwork. Frequently planted in parks and cities is the hybrid between Salix alba and S. babylonica known as S. x chrysocoma. This has slender pendulous branches reaching to the ground and is the commonest of several kinds of "weeping willow".
The centre of the walnut's natural range is in central Asia, from where it extended as far as the Balkan Peninsula. It was cultivated by the Greeks and Romans, the boundary of its distribution shifting markedly northward. Today it is widely planted in North Eastern and central Europe, the U.S.A. and other countries. It is a tree which in central Europe does best on sheltered slopes in warm, hill country. On limestone rock it grows up to elevations of 700 to 800 metres.
The male flowers resemble those of the black walnut, the female flowers arc borne in a stalked spike. The fruit is an ovoid, pointed drupe, 4 to 5 cm long, attached by a stalk approximately 10 cm long. When ripe, it falls from the tree in its entirety, including the yellowish green, sticky-pubescent husk. The nut is sweet and oily.
The tree is cultivated in gardens and avenues for its fruit - nuts - which it begins to bear from about its tenth year. The green husks split in September and October to release the nuts, whose oily kernel is very tasty and nourishing. The high quality wood (the heartwood is brownish, the sapwood greyish) is used to make furniture.
The goat willow is a shrub or small tree 3 to 10 metres high with a broad, broom-shaped crown. It reaches an age of 40 to 60 years or more. The bark is smooth and grey, with rhomboid lenticels. The twigs are stout, the buds ovoid, and the branches with their large catkins, that appear before the leaves, are popular heralds of spring, being among the first wild flowers to be sold at flower stalls. During the flowering period in March the goat willow is a very attractive ornamental, male individuals resembling a large yellow bouquet at this time.
The wood is soft, light and flexible and is used mainly for the building of boats, making wooden shoes, cellulose and cricket bats; the supple young stems are used for basketwork. Frequently planted in parks and cities is the hybrid between Salix alba and S. babylonica known as S. x chrysocoma. This has slender pendulous branches reaching to the ground and is the commonest of several kinds of "weeping willow".
The centre of the walnut's natural range is in central Asia, from where it extended as far as the Balkan Peninsula. It was cultivated by the Greeks and Romans, the boundary of its distribution shifting markedly northward. Today it is widely planted in North Eastern and central Europe, the U.S.A. and other countries. It is a tree which in central Europe does best on sheltered slopes in warm, hill country. On limestone rock it grows up to elevations of 700 to 800 metres.
The male flowers resemble those of the black walnut, the female flowers arc borne in a stalked spike. The fruit is an ovoid, pointed drupe, 4 to 5 cm long, attached by a stalk approximately 10 cm long. When ripe, it falls from the tree in its entirety, including the yellowish green, sticky-pubescent husk. The nut is sweet and oily.
The tree is cultivated in gardens and avenues for its fruit - nuts - which it begins to bear from about its tenth year. The green husks split in September and October to release the nuts, whose oily kernel is very tasty and nourishing. The high quality wood (the heartwood is brownish, the sapwood greyish) is used to make furniture.
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