Willow marsault
The willow marsault ( Salix caprea ) is a common species of willow in Europe and North Africa.
It is a small reaching tree from 6 to 14 m, seldom 20 Mr. the sheets are broader than at the other willows. They of oval form, pointed at their end, and not-are cogged.
This willow is famous for its flowering quite useful for the bees. Flowering begins in March (Belgium).
Biology
The Marsault willow is a plant Dioïque. Ca wants to say, that the plant door either only of the flowers with cheesecloth S or only of the flowers with Pistil S. These are the male subjects of which we admire the Chaton S yellows in spring. The subjects females do not produce flowers with cheesecloths, but develop flowers with pistils. All the two types of flowers are joined together in kittens, the female flowers being of greenish color.
The willow marsault and its use
The gray and silver plated ovoid kittens are used as ornaments of Easter. The Maundy Thursday, one puts the branches cut in a vase at flowers, by decorating them of multicoloured Easter eggs. The wood of willow marsaut is employed to make props, its bark is used in Tannerie.
External bonds
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