Willow is white and tough. Can be used as small farm tools, small household appliances and charcoal burning. Willow is light, easy to cut, does not deform after drying, and has no special smell. It can be used as materials for buildings, potholes, box boards, match sticks and so on. Wood fiber content is high, which is the raw material of papermaking and artificial cotton; Willow and willow branches are good firewood; Willow leaves can be used as feed for sheep and horses; Honey source plants; It is a beautiful ornamental tree species.
Extended data 1. There are many kinds of willows, which are easy to cross. Hybrid has strong growth potential and adaptability, and it is easy to reproduce asexually. You can choose from natural or artificial hybrid populations and obtain excellent clonal varieties through asexual propagation. In addition, a large number of high-quality seedlings can be obtained quickly by plant tissue culture. Breeding based on garden ornamental should focus on improving its branches, leaves and tree shape, and improving its anti-pollution ability and pruning and shaping ability.
2. Willow is one of the main tree species in North Temperate Park, with beautiful tree shape, early flowering and shady trees in early spring. Such as weeping willows and Korean weeping willows, with slender drooping branches, such as willow leaves of eyebrows. All kinds of shrubs and willows are resistant to pruning and can be cultivated into shrubs of various shapes or used as hedges. Willow is most suitable for waterside greening in garden landscape, such as "Willow Warming Warbler" in Hangzhou West Lake and "Taoxi Liuan" in Guiyang Huaxi.
3. There are still many beautiful willows to be developed. For example, willows with big leaves, such as Magnolia, have purple branches, long spikes, red and yellow, and their pistils and stigmas are red and beautiful.
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