Salix 'Chrysocoma'

Hybrid weeping golden willow is a member of the willow or Salicaceae family. It is an artificial hybrid between S. alba 'Vitellina' and S. babylonica developed in Berlin, Germany in about the 1880s. It is a weeping tree and can grow to over 20 m tall.

• Leaves are lanceolate, finely toothed, up to 11 cm long, 1.5–2.0 cm across, green above, lighter white-green below, with a yellow petiole 1 cm long.
• Flower catkins appear in April, being hermaphrodite (having the physical characteristics of both sexes). Each male flower consists of 2 stamens with yellow anthers, producing quite beautiful catkins stretching out at about 35° from the golden yellow stems.
• Twigs are pendant, very slender, golden or greenish-yellow with yellow buds, 1 bud scale, snug to the stem.
• Bark is gray-brown, deeply fissured in older trees.