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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Salicaceae
Salix babylonica

Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 1017 (1753).

Synonymy: Salix babylonica

Common name: Weeping willow, willow.

Description:
Trees to 20 m; final branches long, slender, softly woody, drooping almost to the ground; leaves lanceolate to oblanceolate, serrulate, to c. 15 cm long but very short at the time of flowering, to 1.5 cm broad; petiole to c. 5 mm long.

Female catkins c. 2 cm long, curved; male flowers not known in S.Aust.

image of FSA1_Salix_bab3.jpg Mature twig
Image source: fig. 58a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
image of FSA1_Salix_bab1.jpg Inflorescence
Image source: fig. 58a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
image of FSA1_Salix_bab2.jpg Female flower
Image source: fig. 58a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  Probably native to China, widespread as an ornamental. Rodd (1982) shows it lso in the EP, NL, YP, and SE regions.

S.Aust.: FR, NL, MU, SL, SE.   N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: Sept. — Oct.


SA Distribution Map based
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