Handbook of Tee.es of the jSToktheen States and Canada. T5 



The Peach-leaf Willow is a handsome and 

 distinct Willow, sometimes attaining the 

 height of 60 or 70 ft. with straiglit columnar 

 trunk 2 ft. in diameter. When isolated from 

 other trees it develops a rather narrow rounded 

 top of upright and spreading branches, and 

 while the bark of trunk is ridged it is dis- 

 tinctly smoother and with more appressed 

 scales than is that of the Black Willow, a 

 character especially noticeable on the larger 

 branches. Its large pendent leaves are quite 

 suggestive of those of the Peach and Almond 

 trees and from that fact it receives its name. 

 In company with the Black Willow, with 

 which it apparently freelj' liybridizes, it grows 

 along the borders of streams and low lake- 

 shores over a large area. In distribution it is 

 an almost exact complement of that of the 

 Black Willow, in that it is rarer in the east 

 and more abundant westward as far as to the 

 Rocky Mountains at least, while the reverse is 

 trvie of the Black Willow. 



Its wood is light, a cubic foot when abso- 

 lutely dry weighing 28.10 lbs., soft and not 

 strong, and used mainly for charcoal and fueH 



Lravs revolnte in the bud, 2-6 in. long, ovate- 

 lanceolate to lanceolate, from cuneate to rounded 

 at base, finely .serrate, narrowing to a long slender 

 point : lustrous light green above, pale and glau- 

 cous beneath ; petioles slender, elongated and with- 

 out glands : stipules reniforra but mostly fugacious. 

 Flotrfrs appear with the leaves in terminal aments 

 OD leafy branchlets : scales yellow, villous both 

 sides, caducous : stamens .")-9 with filaments hairy 

 at base ; pistillate aments loose with long-stalked 

 narrow-rvoid glabrous ovaries and nearly sessile 

 emarginate stigmas. Fruit globose conical with 

 long slender pedicels. - 



1. A. W., Ill, 71. 



2. For genus see pp. 42.5-426. 



