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Equipment => Bats => Willow and Willow Trees.... => Topic started by: tim2000s on April 16, 2013, 10:48:46 PM

Title: Salix Viridis
Post by: tim2000s on April 16, 2013, 10:48:46 PM

Reading an old web entry discussing cricket bat making with Tim Keeley, he talks about Caerulea and Salix Viridis.

Can anyone provide more info on the latter and how many makers are using this in preference to caerulea?

Title: Re: Salix Viridis
Post by: Buzz on April 17, 2013, 08:09:53 AM

is that Red willow which Norbs likes?

Title: Re: Salix Viridis
Post by: tim2000s on April 17, 2013, 08:14:49 AM

A brief google suggests that Salix Viridis is the term used for male trees of the Salix Alba Caerulea and other species. I recall Dom mentioning that cricket bats were generally made from female tress, so it would appear that Tim Keeley has in the past worked with male trees.

I can't find any reference to the Oxford Red Willow of which Andy is so fond.