diff -r 8befb15024b5 Lib/shutil.py
--- a/Lib/shutil.py	Fri Jul 10 22:26:44 2015 +0300
+++ b/Lib/shutil.py	Fri Jul 10 16:15:43 2015 -0500
@@ -327,7 +327,11 @@
                     if not os.path.exists(linkto) and ignore_dangling_symlinks:
                         continue
                     # otherwise let the copy occurs. copy2 will raise an error
-                    copy_function(srcname, dstname)
+                    if os.path.isdir(srcname):
+                        copytree(srcname, dstname, symlinks, ignore,
+                                 copy_function)
+                    else:
+                        copy_function(srcname, dstname)
             elif os.path.isdir(srcname):
                 copytree(srcname, dstname, symlinks, ignore, copy_function)
             else:
diff -r 8befb15024b5 Lib/test/test_shutil.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_shutil.py	Fri Jul 10 22:26:44 2015 +0300
+++ b/Lib/test/test_shutil.py	Fri Jul 10 16:15:43 2015 -0500
@@ -901,6 +901,26 @@
         shutil.copytree(src_dir, dst_dir, symlinks=True)
         self.assertIn('test.txt', os.listdir(dst_dir))
 
+    @support.skip_unless_symlink
+    def test_copytree_symlink_dir(self):
+        src_dir = self.mkdtemp()
+        dst_dir = os.path.join(self.mkdtemp(), 'destination')
+        os.mkdir(os.path.join(src_dir, 'real_dir'))
+        with open(os.path.join(src_dir, 'real_dir', 'test.txt'), 'w'):
+            pass
+        os.symlink(os.path.join(src_dir, 'real_dir'),
+                   os.path.join(src_dir, 'link_to_dir'),
+                   target_is_directory=True)
+        shutil.copytree(src_dir, dst_dir, symlinks=False)
+
+        assert not os.path.islink(os.path.join(dst_dir, 'link_to_dir'))
+        self.assertIn("test.txt", os.listdir(os.path.join(dst_dir, 'link_to_dir')))
+
+        dst_dir = os.path.join(self.mkdtemp(), 'destination2')
+        shutil.copytree(src_dir, dst_dir, symlinks=True)
+        assert os.path.islink(os.path.join(dst_dir, 'link_to_dir'))
+        self.assertIn("test.txt", os.listdir(os.path.join(dst_dir, 'link_to_dir')))
+
     def _copy_file(self, method):
         fname = 'test.txt'
         tmpdir = self.mkdtemp()