Salix koriyanagi ‘Rubykins’ Vilmorin Site the shrub where the

Site the shrub where the late-winter perfume will be caught daily

upright ornamental of coarse

and coconut among the four major woody oil crops on Earth

or an evergreen screen in a damp

Taxonomy here is unsettled

Salix koriyanagi ‘Rubykins’ Vilmorin Site the shrub where theThe willows gave the world its first painkiller. Willow bark, steeped by Greek and Native American healers alike for fever and ache, carries salicin, the compound nineteenth century chemists refined into salicylic acid and, in time, aspirin, which still wears the genus name buried in the chemistry. This particular willow comes by a quieter trade. Salix koriyanagi is the Korean basket willow, the name meaning just that, long grown across Korea, Japan,