| Scientific Name: | Salix udensis 'Sekka' |
| Common Name: | fantail willow |
| Family Name: | Salicaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin, S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Shrub - deciduous, Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 3 - 5m x 5 - 7m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Dense, Pendulous, Spreading, Twiggy, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Cut flower or foliage, Dried flower or fruit, Mixed shrub border, Screening, Specimen plant, Tall background, Wetland - bogs, Winter interest, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Leathery, Pinnate venation, Lustrous, Elliptic, Lanceolate, Entire, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Catkin (ament), Yellow, Silver, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Jun-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Multi-stem shrub, upright with flattened, contorted branchlets, red-purple stems/buds in spring; leaves alternate, lanceolate, most 15-20cm long x 2-3cm wide, bright green with silvery green beneath, highly fluted (fasciated) stems; catkins in early spring, gray then yellow. | |