''Salix miyabeana'' is a species of
willow
Willows, also called sallows and osiers, of the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 350 species (plus numerous hybrids) of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions.
Most species are known ...
native to northern
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
. It is a
deciduous
In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous () means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed Leaf, leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, aft ...
shrub or small tree, reaching a height of 6–7 m.
Salix miyabeana Seemen, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 21(4, Beibl. 53): 50 (1896).
''International Plant Names Index (IPNI)'', accessed 1 October 2020
Uses
Like many willow species, ''S. miyabeana'' is a dynamic biomass accumulator and is sometimes used in the phytoremediation of mercury polluted soils.
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Flora of Japan
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