Black Willow

The Black Willow is a tree found on Linphea which appeared in the 12th episode of Season 3.

When the Winx girls went to Linphea to find a way to make Faragonda return to her normal appearance after she had been changed into a tree by Valtor, they met the Sage of Linphea. The Sage told them that the only way of helping Faragonda was to reverse the flow of time since Valtor's magic was too powerful.

The Sage then told them the story of the Black Willow. According to her, aeons ago, two willow trees were the source of life of the lush region of Lulla, a lush prosperous land north of Linphea. Flora replied that Lulia is a wasteland, and the Sage told her that Lulia was not so before the Great Realm Fire which totally destroyed one of the willow trees and badly damaged the other, which became known as the Black Willow. Its grief was such that it could not stay where its sister had once stood, so it left Lulia. It then went to a cave in a mountain found near the Sage's residence, where it began weepimg for its lost sister. Its tears soon became a puddle which then became a pond. flowing out of the cave and up the cliffside, defying gravity and forming what is now known in Linphea as the Water Stairway. When Layla/Aisha expressed her surprise at learning about a place where the water flows backwards, the Sage told her tha memory is what makes the Black Willow cry, and that is why its tears could reverse the flow of time and change what has happened.

The Winx then deduced that if they could get some of the water and water the Faragonda-tree and turn back time, and bring her and the tree Valtor merged her with just before Valtor's spell was cast, they would then be able to free her. The Sage however warned them that they must act quicly, or else Valtor's spell would become irreversible if they wait too long, and that they needed a goblet to collect the tears of the Willow.