Common Name: Chinese willow, corkscrew willow Family Name: Salicaceae - Willow Species Code: SAMA Native Range: Asia NJ Status: Emerging Stage 0 – Absent or very rare. It is on our "Watch List" because it may become threatening to native communities. General Description • upright spreading deciduous tree • grows to a height of up to 40 feet • canopy has a spread of 15 feet • most easily recognized by its highly contorted and twisted branches and twigs • bark is smooth and greyish brown with diamond-shaped lenticels • its shallow, fast-growing roots can damage utility lines, foundations, and sidewalks, it hybridizes with other willows, and it sprouts readily from cuttings Leaves • alternate, 2 to 4 inches long • shiny green on top, whitish underneath, turn yellow in fall • linear, lanceolate and finely serrated Flowers • pale yellow-green fuzzy 1 to 1.5 inch catkins Fruit • one-inch clusters of inconspicuous light brown capsules containing numerous small fuzzy seeds • ripen in late spring Habitat • medium to wet soils • Full sun to part shade Commercially Available Yes Look-alikes • weeping willow (Salicaceae Salix babylonica) • black willow (Salicaceae Salix nigra) Control Recommendations Foliar Spray: FS-1 • Glyphosate 3.75%, Triclopyr Amine 2.50% • Please see our Herbicide Use Suggestions and Mixing Guide for more information Basal Bark: BB-1 • Triclopyr Ester 25% OR Pathfinder II ready-to-use mixture • Please see our Herbicide Use Suggestions and Mixing Guide for more information • Apply from July through September to enhance effectiveness