Is the silver willow a real flower or a fake flower?

There are real flowers and fake flowers in the silver willow, which are usually real flowers. Real plants are cut flowers for bud observation, and the bud observation period is still relatively long. Silver willow itself is an excellent cut flower material, which is suitable for indoor conservation and can play a better decorative role. It is common around the Spring Festival. If you want short-term maintenance, you can put it in a vase, add some pure water and change the water frequently. If you want to maintain it for a long time, it is still recommended to make dried flowers and watch them for a long time.

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morphological character

Large shrubs, 4-5 meters high; The bark is gray. Branchlets are yellowish to brown, glabrous, and shoots have short hairs. The buds are oval, dull and brown, with short villi at first and then falling off.

Leaves obovate, oblong obovate, sparsely round-lanceolate or broad-lanceolate, 4 4- 10/0cm long and1.5-3cm wide, with short tapering apex and wedge-shaped base, serrated glandular margin, green upper surface, gray fluff at first, falling off later, densely villous lower surface, shiny midvein and 8 lateral veins. Petiole is 5- 10 mm long, brown and fluffy; Stipules lanceolate or ovoid-lanceolate, glandular serrate at the margin, caducous.

The flower leaves first, and the male inflorescence is almost sessile, about 2 cm long; Stamens 2, free, glabrous; Gland1; The female inflorescence has a short peduncle, 2-4 cm long, and the fruit period is elongated; The ovary is ovoid and conical, densely covered with gray villi, the ovary stalk is much shorter than the gland, the style is about 65438±0mm long, brown, and the stigma is as long as the style; Bracts ovoid, apex pointed or slightly obtuse, black, densely covered with gray hairs; Gland 1, abdomen. The flowering period is May-June and the fruiting period is July-August.