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.
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Image source: fig. 58a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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| Inflorescence
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Image source: fig. 58a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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| Female flower
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Image source: fig. 58a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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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.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Sept. — Oct.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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