The foliage leaves have kidney-shaped or half- heart -shaped stipules 1.5 to 6 millimeters long, falling off early.

The leaf blade is 5 to 15 centimeters long, 3 to 6 centimeters wide, obovate to elliptical-lanceolate, usually half as wide as long, with a pointed or blunt end, a rounded to broadly wedge-shaped base and a more or less wavy and irregularly serrated leaf edge.

[2][1] The numerous catkins are up to 8 inches long, cylindrical to ovate, sitting and densely shaggy hairy.

[2][1] The natural range is in temperate areas in the north of Iran and Iraq, in the southeast of Turkey and in Azerbaijan.

[2] The species grows in floodplain and bank trees on fresh to moist, acidic to neutral, sandy-gravelly soils in sunny locations.

Musk willow water and syrup are used in Egyptian and Persian cuisines to flavour drinks, pastries and candies.