Salix koriyanagi ‘Rubykins’ Vilmorin and coconut among the four

and coconut among the four major woody oil crops on Earth

so treat the plant as evergreen in the warm South and semi-evergreen where winters bite

borne in clusters at the branch tips from late June through September

or an evergreen screen in a damp

Salix koriyanagi ‘Rubykins’ Vilmorin and coconut among the fourThe willows gave the world its first painkiller. Willow bark, steeped by Greek and Native American healers alike for fever and ache, carries salicin, the compound nineteenth century chemists refined into salicylic acid and, in time, aspirin, which still wears the genus name buried in the chemistry. This particular willow comes by a quieter trade. Salix koriyanagi is the Korean basket willow, the name meaning just that, long grown across Korea, Japan,