Order: Malpighiales
Family: Salicaceae
Genus: Salix
Species: S. nigra
Characteristics:
-medium size deciduous tree
-bark - brown to blakwish,fissured in older trees,
-shoots are slender,
-leaves arealternate, long, this, dark, shiny green on both sides, finely serrated margin
adaptations:
Located in easter North America and a few patches south, west USA. TYpically lives by streams or swamps.
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