Please help,Willow I'm hoping...what do you think ?

[muzzichead]

Fingers crossed.

[rainbowgardener]

Not any willow I am familiar with. Their leaves are usually much more long and narrow:


https://www.extension.iastate.edu/fores ... leaves.jpg

It would help if you tell us how big the tree or shrub this came from is (better yet show a picture showing the whole tree or shrub) and tell us where you are located.

[GardeningCook]

Sorry - definitely not a willow.

[shadylane]

most probably a butternut
https://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/senior/f ... ernut4.htm

[GardeningCook]

Again OP - Where are you located?

(Not that we're expecting you check back. I'll never understand why people join a forum to ask one question & then disappear. Which is why I've stopped doing uber research for one-stop posters. Sad.)

[shadylane]

Curious, I went on a hunt..found these willows

https://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species ... lix+lucida

https://books.google.com/books?id=mY9IA ... ix&f=false

https://ontariotrees.com/main/species.php?id=2235

[Allyn]

Curious, I went on a hunt..found these willows .....

That is interesting. They're not like any willow I'm familiar with, but they definitely are willows and some of those pics look amazingly like the OPs pics. If I'm not careful, I learn something new every day.