Salix Salix, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 46

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.302862
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scientific name	Salix Salix
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4. S. babylonica L. View in CoL , Sp. PI. 1017 (1753).

Tree up to 20 m. Twigs long, pendent, drooping almost to the ground. Leaves 8-16 x 0-8-1-5 cm, narrowly lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate, glabrous at maturity; petiole 3-5 mm. Catkins up to 2 x 0-3-04 cm, curved. Bracts concolorous, glabrescent. Female flowers with 1 nectary. Ovary glabrous, sessile; stigma emarginate. Widely planted and sometimes more or less naturalized. (Native country uncertain, probably China)

5. alba subsp. vitellina x babylonica ( S. chrysocoma Dode ) is frequently planted and combines the silky indumentum and the yellow twigs of the former with the ‘weeping’ growth of the latter. It is more hardy than pure S. babylonica . S. alba* babylonica (S. x sepulcralis Simonkai) is frequently cultivated. 5. babylonica x fragilis (S. x blanda N. J. Andersson ) is also cultivated, but less frequently.