Salix laevigata - Red willow

Red willow (Salix laevigata) is a deciduous tree native to riparian California, its sweet sap eaten like candy and its shoots and roots woven into baskets.¹

Outputs

• Human food¹
• Medicinal use¹
• Fibre¹

Type

• Salix spp. - Willow
• Tree
• Deciduous

Functions

• Flammable²

Footnotes

1. Salix laevigata | Useful Temperate Plants ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time 15 seconds ↩