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Salix babylonica L., 1753

Common names

  • 🇬🇧 Weeping Willow
  • 🇫🇷 Saule pleureur

Taxonomy

  • Kingdom: Plantae
  • Clade: Tracheophytes
  • Clade: Angiosperms
  • Clade: Eudicots
  • Clade: Superrosids
  • Clade: Rosids
  • Clade: Fabids
  • Order: Malpighiales
  • Family: Salicaceae
  • Subfamily: Salicoideae
  • Genus: Salix
  • Species: Salix babylonica

Presence

Introduced, not established.

Conservation status

  • Red List (Metropolitan France): NA Not Applicable
  • Red List (Global): DD Data Deficient

Notes

Hybridizes with:

  • S. alba var. alba L., 1753 to produce S. × sepulcralis nothovar. sepulcralis Simonk., 1890, P;
  • S. alba var. vitellina (L.) Stokes, 1812 to produce S. × sepulcralis nothovar. chrysocoma (Dode) Meikle, 1985, M;
  • S. fragilis L., 1753 to produce S. × pendulina Wender., 1831, M.

Photographs

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Salix babylonica
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Salix babylonica
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Salix babylonica
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Salix babylonica

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