Purple Willow (male & female catkins)
Salix purpurea
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- Type: Flowering Plant
- Family: Salicaceae
- Genus: Salix
- Species: purpurea
- Colour: Green
- Habitat: Streams & Rivers
- Habitat: Waysides
- Habitat: Wetlands
- Site:East London
- Site:UK
- Site:Walthamstow Marshes
- Month:May
- Photographer:RKS