Braided raw material Salix

Is a shrub or small tree; branchlets with purple, hairy when young, after hairless; leaf strips or strips oblanceolate, 1.5 ~ 5cm long, serrate; male inflorescence slightly longer than female inflorescence, usually 1.5 ~ 2.3 cm; mainly distributed in Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin and other provinces; more than grown on sand dunes, tough branches, weaving baskets and crafts.

Salix is ​​a desert plant, and it is also one of the few plants that can grow on saline land. Its young branches are yellow, leaf-shaped or linear-shaped lanceolate, branches are not afraid of sand pressure, roots are developed, sprouting power is strong, is a sand-fixing afforestation tree species, its natural enemy is Salix argentatus moth, was born in river valley wetlands, distributed in Inner Mongolia, Hebei Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan and other places. Salix is ​​used as the main force of northern sand prevention and is one of the first choices for the "Three-North Shelter Forest."