SALIX matsudana 'TORTUOSA'

corkscrew willow

SALIX matsudana 'TORTUOSA'

corkscrew willow

  • Maintenance advice : Regeneration and formation pruning if necessary, at the end of winter.
  • Botanical/Horticultural origin : Horticultural origin; introduced from northern China to Vilmorin (FR) by Joseph Hers (B) around 1920.
  • Use group : Sträucher
  • Height at 10 years : 8 m
  • Width at 10 years : 4 m
  • Growth : Fast
  • Fragrance : No
  • Exposure : Sun - Half shade
  • Evergreen/Deciduous : Deciduous
  • Shape : bushy
  • Colour of leaves : Green
  • Colour of flowers : Yellow
  • Soil type : Garden soil
  • Uses : Free standing specimen
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Beautiful vigorous shrub or tree with typical spiral branches, also appreciated for its decorative flowering. Its upright and flexible branches are slightly drooping at their ends. It has a young green and smooth bark. Its thin foliage has a green colour on the upper side of the leaves and bluish undersides. Perfect in isolated clumps, near a pond, in flower beds or in hedges. Its current Latin name is Salix babylonica var. pekinensis 'Tortuosa'.