Its all very difficult when you want to start to get to grips with the genus Salix. At Leybourne there is plenty of scope and there may be Salix alba, Salix fragilis, Salix caprea or Salix x reichardtii, Salix cinerea, and Salix viminalis, together with a large number of variants, cultivars and hybrids. I have suddenly remembered that there is a reference collection of Salix at the Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve!
This is a suspected Salix cinerea ssp. oleifolia, but it will need checking and re-checking! I noticed one strium on the small section of last year's wood I remembered to collect.
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