Beijing has mapped its female poplar and willow trees to try to contain catkins that descend on the city each spring. The Chinese capital has been blanketed by catkins, the trees’ fluffy seeds ...

Willow catkins shroud parked vehicles and a fruit vendor on Huixin Dongjie in Beijing's Chaoyang district on Monday. [Photo by Xu Jingxing/China Daily] ...

This year, the bureau will treat 300,000 female poplar and willow trees in Beijing. Last year, around 400,000 such trees were treated to reduce the annoying catkins. Enditem ...

The poplar trees down the street are starting to look like tree-versions of their close cousins the pussy willows. Little fuzzy catkins that look a lot like a typical pussy willow have opened up ...

The earliest catkins, and among the largest — which sometimes appear in January at the nursery — are from the giant pussy willow, a S. leucopithecia hybrid named Winter Glory (formerly S ...

Willow catkins shroud parked vehicles and a fruit vendor on Huixin Dongjie in Beijing's Chaoyang district on Monday. [Photo by Xu Jingxing/China Daily] ...

Willow catkins shroud parked vehicles and a fruit vendor on Huixin Dongjie in Beijing's Chaoyang district on Monday. [Photo/China Daily] The Beijing municipal government is looking at ways to deal ...