Bratoszewice, route to Kalinów.

Synonym 'Salix lasiandra'. Not native to Poland, but widely spread! Ornamental plant, meet mainly in parks or botanical gardens. Edible plants - the inner bark can be eaten fresh or it can be dried, ground into a powder and then added to cereal flour for use in making bread, as famine food. Herbal plant - the bark is analgesic, antiasthmatic, astringent and haemostatic, it is used in the treatment of bleeding and asthma; a poultice of the bark has been applied to the head to allay the pain of headaches; an infusion of the leaves is used as an analgesic in the treatment of headaches.