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Salix gracilistyla
Rose-gold pussy willow is a deciduous shrub, grown mainly for its silky catkins that appear before the leaves in early spring and for its colorful young stems. Give it full sun and moist, well-drained soil, and prune it hard after flowering to keep the new rose-gold shoots coming.
Salix gracilistyla is a species of willow native to Japan, Korea and China known in English as the rose-gold pussy willow.
It is a deciduous shrub that reaches a height of 1–6 m.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Salix gracilistyla by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
