Common name: Weeping Willow
Salix x pendulina Wender. APNI* Synonyms: Salix x pendulina Wender. nothovar. pendulina APNI*
Description: Weeping tree to 18 m high with a short trunk and wide crown; bark grey-brown to dark-brown and deeply fissured; twigs and shoots weeping to pendent; twigs slender, moderately to strongly fragile, black-brown, olive-brown, green to green-brown; buds glabrescent, brown.
Leaves lanceolate to broad-ovate, 7.5–14 cm long, 15–44 mm wide, deep green above, glaucous or glaucescent below, margins coarsely and irregularly toothed.
Plants male or female, catkins on short leafy or hardly leafy shoots; male catkins tapered cylindric, 2.5–4.5 cm long; scales yellow-green; stamens 2; female catkins similar in size to male, usually conspicuously exceeding the catkin scales.
Capsules c. 4 mm long.
Flowering: September–October.
Distribution and occurrence:
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CT, *ST, *CWS
Other Australian states: *Vic. *S.A.
Garden hybrid (involving Salix babylonica and S. euxina) originating in Germany. The name S. babylonica L. has been misapplied to this taxon in Tas.
Text by S.W.L. Jacobs & L. Murray (2000)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 Suppl. (2000)
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