PEACH-LEAF WILLOW (Salix amygdaloides, Anders). 30 to 40 feet; rarely 70 feet. Slender-tree with erect or leaning trunk and straight, ascending branches. Bark reddish brown, fissured into scaly plates; branches brown, shading into orange in the shining, pale-dotted twigs. Wood light, soft, pale blown, weak, used for fuel. Leaves broadly lanceolate, taper pointed, with rounded base and serrate margins, pale, and glaucous beneath, bright green above, with prominent, yellow midribs, and veins, and stout petioles; stipules kidney-shaped, broad, but early deciduous. Strong resemblance to the foli
age of peach trees. Flowers in loosely flowered catkins, 1 to 2 inches long, with leaves. Fruits, capsules with thin, dry walls containing minute seeds. Dist.: Quebec to British Columbia; south through New York, Ohio to Missouri and Texas; moun tainous regions to British Columbia. Rare east of Ohio. Commonest large willow west of the Mississippi. Cultivated in the Middle West.