Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Plant: Willow varieties......

Willow...a Salicaceae family member....a close relative of aspen and cottonwood....
Australian willow ....
The curtain of slender leaves swaying gently is the summer breeze....sun peeping through the leafy crown....black phoebes, finches and crows taking shelter on the boughs....


in bloom....


Sandbar willow.....
It grows luxuriantly in riparian area...


Bright golden yellow foliage in autumn......

The cottony mass of its withered capsule.......

The golden willows brightening the chaparral........


Weeping willow....
It's beautiful with characteristic long drooping branches....

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