koreensis ‘Hakuro’

This female selection opens with leaves of a unique shade of pale yellow. We obtained this beauty from Dick Jaynes at Broken Arrow Nursery in Connecticut. It has a very Oriental, ethereal quality about it when the leaves appear in April and May. After eight years this plant is now about 20 x 14ft and all we’ve done to it is prune out some lower branches as they were shading the perennials planted under it. In summer 2016 I helped the Montreal Botanic Garden with the nomenclature of some of their willows and realized when I examined their Salix koreensis that it was extremely similar to our ‘Hakuro’. So I was allowed to take a piece to compare the two and sure enough the similarities were just too close to ignore. In 2020 I had this verified in Russia. The difference, of course, is in the pale yellow leaves of the cultivar.

formerly known as integra ‘Hakuro’