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The catkins are produced in early spring, before the leaves.

I don't know what they are, but one of those trees has little catkins on it.

Some catkins are made of only male flowers, which mature first.

However, if these catkins flower to early, they will not be available to the bees.

The male and female catkins appear in spring at the same time as the leaves.

The flowers are produced in early spring on catkins 2-3 cm long.

The flowers are small catkins which appear shortly after the leaves in spring.

The flowers are produced in spring, with separate male and female catkins.

The catkins are borne in the axils of the leaves.

All these species produce catkins early in spring, which may be important food sources prior to leave flush.

The first catkins hung on the willow, dusted with frost.

There, all by itself, hung a small watercolor of a pond, with catkins along the shore.

Both will bear a spectacular display of catkins on second-year wood.

The male flowers are long-stalked catkins, developing at the shoot base.

It has some lovely catkins on it just now.

She felt a warm glow of happiness as she added the catkins to his cup.

Flowers are drooping raceme catkins appear before or with leaves.

The catkins appear long before the leaves, and are one of the earliest signs of spring.

The prominent catkins are green turning to brown.

Poor people at one time often ate willow catkins that had been cooked to form a mash.

The flowers, borne on small catkins ("short shoots"), are white or light yellow.

The male flowers form long drooping catkins that are yellow-green in color.

The male flowers may be high up in the tree, often in the form of dangling catkins.

Catkins are borne on stalks from leaf axils of the current growth.

The flowers are yellow catkins 1-9 cm long, produced in late spring after the leaves emerge.