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Salix nigra, black willow

Salix nigra (black willow) is a species of willow native to eastern North America, from New Brunswick and southern Ontario west to Minnesota, and south to northern Florida and Texas.

Uses

sexual erethism, irritability, passion, libidinous thoughts, irritability, Toot cystitis, sexual abuse, ovaritis, cystitis, prostatitis.

Parts Used

inner bark, Leaves.

Chemical Composition

White-willow bark, according to Pelletier and Caventou, consists of bitter, yellow coloring matter, green fatty matter, tannic acid, resin, etc. The chief constituent, however, as with all the willows, is the glucosid salicin (see Salicinum)[1]

Common names

Language Common name
Kannada
Hindi Akarkara
Malayalam Akkarakaaram
Tamil
Telugu
Marathi NA
Gujarathi NA
Punjabi NA
Kashmiri NA
Sanskrit Akarkarabh
English Pellitory


Habit

tree

Identification

Leaf

Kind Shape Feature
simple deciduous petiolate, alternate, distichous, (2–)5–15 cm long, (0.3–)0.5–1.5(–2) cm wide, falcate or lanceolate, leaf margins serrate or serrulate, leaf apices acuminate, leaf bases cuneate or obtuse or rounded

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Flower

Type Size Color and composition Stamen More information
Unisexual 14-18cm long Yellow, Circular Androecium. Stamens 3–7 per flower. Flowering February or March or April or May. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, catkins, flowers sessile. Flowers unisexual or pistillate or staminate. Perianth. Calyx absent. Corolla absent. Gynoecium. Ovaries superior, pistils 1 per flower. Gynoecium syncarpous, 2 carpels per flower, styles 1 per pistil, styles 0.2 mm long.

Fruit

Type Size Mass Appearance Seeds More information
Fruits capsules 0.3–0.8 cm long reddish-brown, fruit maturation 1 years seeds many, ovoid. {{{6}}}

Other features

List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used

Where to get the saplings

Mode of Propagation

Seeds, Cuttings.

How to plant/cultivate

Succeeds in most soils, including wet, ill-drained or intermittently flooded soilst[3]

Commonly seen growing in areas

wet soil condition, along streams and lakes.

Photo Gallery

  • Var. depressus

  • same plant, flower detail

  • Var. depressus, flowers closed

References

  1. ↑ "henrittes herbal"
  2. ↑ "common trees"
  3. ↑ "plantd for future"

External Links

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