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Basket Willow ‘Black Maul’

Salix triandra ‘Black Maul’

Price range: $12.00 through $16.00

Also known as ‘Almond Willow’, this is a robust, deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 10 m tall, usually multi-stemmed and bushy, with an irregular, often leaning crown. The young stems are shiny dark maroon-black, becoming scaly on older stems with large scales exfoliating to leave orange-brown patches.  It forms an attractive tree with good autumn colour.

Please note you are purchasing a potted plant –  we do not sell cuttings.

Cultivation

Requires a sunny spot and moist soils, and will tolerate very wet soils and periodic flooding. Do not plant near buildings or drains as roots can be invasive.

If cultivating for basketry, plants should be cut to the ground each year in order to provide pliable stems the following year.

Uses

Black Maul is one of the most well known and used willows for basket work of all types due to its pliability, and dries to an olive green colour. Additionally, a yellow dye can be obtained from the bark and young leaves.

Willows also have medicinal uses (the source of aspirin), and are a useful component of wastewater treatment systems, soil stabilisation and phyto-remediation schemes, as the plants are said to take up heavy metals and other toxic substances. They also produce a huge amount of biomass which can be ‘chopped and dropped’ throughout the season, or put through a wood chipper in a forest garden or food forest situation to provide carbon material and mulch for soil improvement in the form of ramial wood chip (RWC), or cut to pulse a syntropic food forest.

Willow branches can also be chopped and soaked in water for 24 hours to make a rooting hormone for cuttings. Willows provides excellent bee food in early spring for rearing brood.

Medicinal Uses

Willows have been used worldwide since ancient times to treat pain and fever. The Assyrians, Greeks and Native Americans were all aware of its analgesic properties. It has been used for joint pain, childbirth, sore throats, fevers, flu, headaches, back pain and toothache. An infusion of leaves can also be used to induce calm in nervous insomnia, and in a bath for rheumatism. Willow leaves have also been explored for use in wound dressings and gingivitis due to their antimicrobial action.

White willow (Salix alba) is the most used species, containing the highest levels of salicin but all willows contain it to some degree.

Primary Actions: antipyretic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, astringent, tonic, bitter

Parts Used: bark, leaves

History / Folklore / Further Info

In many cultures willows symbolize resilience, flexibility and adaptability. In others they are a symbol of loss, grief and renewal. They have been used in cleansing rituals, to celebrate the arrival of spring, and in Native American traditions they are often used to make ‘dreamcatchers’.

Jo Says

I have loved The Wind in the Willows book since I was 7 years old and learned to recite the ‘Duck’s Ditty’ poem at school off by heart! We now have a wee ‘boathouse’ made of woven willow down at the pond in our food forest, a beautiful spot for a bit of quiet contemplation – or indeed reading The Wind in the Willows again!

Please note you are purchasing a potted plant – we do not sell cuttings.

Shipping Advice

N.B. Shipping costs are added AFTER you have placed your order, you will then be emailed an invoice with bank details. 

Smallest box rate:
This can fit up to 9 plants in 9cm pots.

Shipping a single tree can be expensive. We may be able to fit more in the box for the same price! See our shipping rates for single and multi tree boxes.

Combining sizes?
No problem, we will work out the best rate for you once you’ve placed your order.

Full list of shipping rates HERE

Medical disclaimer

Jo has a passion for growing herbs but is not a qualified herbalist and has no medical background.

We are lucky to have Patricia Beagle working here at times, who is qualified, and some of her advice does appear on these pages, but herbs act differently for different people and can interact with other medicines. We therefore always recommend that you consult with your own qualified health-care practitioner before using herbal products, particularly if you are pregnant, nursing or on any medications.

Kahikatea Farm cannot take any responsibility for any adverse effects from the use of the plants or a plant not having the effect it is reputed to have. 

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