Willows, a genus called Salix, is composed of 300 species worldwide, mostly in the northern hemisphere. The leaves are mostly alternately arranged on the stalks. The flowers are in pistillate and staminate catkins, formed on different individual, shrubby trees and open before the leaves expand from buds.
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