Salix babylonica
(Weeping Willow)
Family - Salicaceae
Category - Tree
Origin - China
Year of Introduction - 1730
Season of Interest - Spring, Summer
Hardiness - H5
Height - 10m - 12m
Location - The Pond Garden
Description: A medium-sized Deciduous tree with a graceful, weeping habit. Long, narrow, mid-green leaves are linear to lanceolate in shape and have finely toothed margins. Pendent catkins are produced in mid-spring. Female catkins are silvery-green, shorter male catkins are yellow and produced on separate plants.
Flower:
Dioecious. Silvery-green female catkins, and shorter male catkins with yellow anthers are produced in April, but on separate plants. Most of the plants in cultivation are female.
Flower colour: Green, yellow
Flower shape: Catkins
Flowering time: April
Foliage:
Long, linear to lanceolate leaves are mid-green on the upper surface and glaucous beneath and have serrate margins. The leaves are Alternately arranged along the slender, pendulous branches.
Foliage Senescence: Deciduous
Foliage Shape: Linear, lanceolate
Propagation:
Cuttings.
Cultivation:
Best in full sun in fertile, moist soil.