You may have noticed white fluff floating in the air. It comes from poplar and willow trees spreading their seeds around.
Somne of the fluff sticks to the old female flowers and drops to the ground when the flowers fall off. If you are feeling a bit low and plodding around with your eyes on the ground, these piles of fluff may alert you to a sallow tree (either grey willow or goat willow) overhead. The diamond shaped marks on the tree bark (lenticels) also help to identify the tree as a sallow.
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