1, ornamental role and value

This can be said to be known to everyone, especially its beautiful tree, branches and different forms, is a garden, parks, one of the main ornamental species. There are slender drooping branches, such as the eyebrow of the willow leaves, put the leaves, flowering early, early spring full of young green trees is a scene.

2, crafts and value

Maybe many people only know that the willow tree has an ornamental role and value, but do not know that in fact, it also has a craft role and value. Willow bark can be used as utensils and papermaking raw materials, willow flakes can be filled with chair cushions and pillows. River willow branch bark fibers can be used for textile and rope raw materials, branches can be woven baskets, lifting baskets, wicker boxes and helmets and so on. Willow material is light, easy to cut, no deformation after drying, no special odor, can be used for construction, pit wood, box boards and match stems and other timber. There are also willow leaves can be used as fodder for sheep, horses and so on.

3, environmental role and value

Experiments have shown that willow can also be used for combined heat and power production, and in the production of bioenergy at the same time, willow can also play a role in removing pollutants and governance of the environment. Can also be used for municipal wastewater, garbage leachate, industrial wastewater (such as wood storage plant spraying logs after the wastewater), sewer sludge and saw foam and other treatment.

Willow is a general term for a group of plants: dry willow Salix matsudana Koidz., glandular willow Salix chaenomeloides Kimura, weeping willow ?Salix babylonica Linn. The genus Willow is mostly a shrub, sparse tree, without terminal buds, united axis branching, the number of stamens is small, the insect-mediated flowers, and other characteristics suggest that the more Populus spp. evolved with Drilling Willow spp.

This genus of about 520 species in the world, mainly produced in the northern hemisphere temperate regions, the frigid zone, followed by the tropics and the southern hemisphere is very little, Oceania has no wild species. There are 257 species, 122 varieties and 33 variants in China. Provinces and districts are produced.