Sentence:  Now the thing for us to do is to find ourselves a couple of those wonderful flowering currants such as the red Ribes sanguineum of our Pacific Northwest , or otherwise a good sloe <WSD>tree</WSD> , or perhaps some nice pussy willow in bloom , preferably one with male or staminate catkins . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms