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Sidewinder sculpture by Patrick Dougherty made of black willow and red maple ...
Pollardet Willows with inhabitants (Urtica, Ribes uva-crispa, Sambucus
These seed capsules are ready to disburse on the down covered seed by wind.
Roughly 20 feet tall. Located on the bank of a marsh the tree was leaning ...
This photo was taken from across the Rio Grande River, so I could not get a ...
In the Salicaceae because it's chock full of salicylic acid, on of the active ...
Willows are the source of modern day aspirin, for other medicinal uses see ...
The largest North American sawfly. Curls up when at rest or threatened.
Noticed a plethora of woodpecker borings in an old black willow tree. I'm ...
The wingspan is 62-88 mm for ssp. caecigena and 40-65 mm for males and 48-90 mm ...
Bark is dark brown to blackish, becoming heavily fissured in older trees. ...
Black caterpillar with gray speckles and long, black spikes that branch out. ...
tremula or Populus nigra and
The Mourning Cloak is a large butterfly native to North America. (Also native ...
Black body with many tiny white spots. Seven or eight red spots run down the ...
This Willow is different from other types of willows because its branches are ...
. Some adults migrate south in the fall. Caterpillars eat Willows including ...
