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Kilmarnock willow
marybotham
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I have had a Kilmarnock willow for 4 years, this year it has developed berries on the branches. They look like, and are the same size as blackberries. I have not tasted them.
Can anyone tell me what they are?
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Sorry ....but Salix caprea Kilmarnock does not have black berries.
It is a weeping form of willow.
It has catkins in the spring.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=salix+caprea+kilmarnock&rlz=1C1GNAM_en-GBGB687GB687&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZxNDxrcPVAhXII8AKHUBPDlMQ_AUICigB&biw=1536&bih=759
Must be something else...Mulberry maybe.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=morus+nigra+fruit&rlz=1C1GNAM_en-GBGB687GB687&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiH5-iqrsPVAhXEzFQKHRTZDR0Q_AUICigB&biw=1536&bih=759
Last edited: 06 August 2017 20:41:09
Can we have some photos of your tree and some of the fruits.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks for replies photo's not very good it's an age thing.
For the past years there have been the catkns this is the only time I have ever seen berries on one of these trees
They grow on small stems not directly off the branch like a fungus
Last edited: 07 August 2017 09:27:00
mulberry?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Definitely Mulberry...Morus.
A very handsome young tree...it may not have been old enough to produce the fruits before.
Fruits are edible.
This is what the female flowers look like..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morus_nigra#/media/File:Black_Mulberry_Female_Flowers.jpg
Morus alba leaves underside shiny/smooth.
Morus nigra underside are hairy.see....
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/86/3f/0d/863f0da48c045c7808247188390c3fe2.jpg
Last edited: 07 August 2017 09:41:40
Thanks, I will have to contact the garden center that sold it with the label Kilmarnock willow on it, but I think a mulberry tree might have cost me more.
Oooh, what a bargain!!!! I'd rather have a mulberry than a Kilmarnock willow any day.
Lucky lucky you
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
"I'd rather have a mulberry than a Kilmarnock willow any day."
Me too.
I'd rather have almost anything than a Kilmarnock willow
. Except maybe 'Flamingo'
In the sticks near Peterborough
Another mulberry fan here. Loathe Kilmarnock willows - short lived, fussy, ugly when they become just a mound of overgrown hanging stems with dull foliage.
Reckon you've got a bargain to treasure.