This small tree looks like many willows and would normally be a tricky one to identify except that the bark is quite distinctly glossy purple and without hairs just as you might expect. It flowers quite early and the first buds appeared in January. There are two subspecies and this one is probably ssp purpurea.
Llandudno West Shore, 19th February 2005
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Added on 20th February 2005