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habit (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)

weeping stems (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)

orange-coloured younger stems and elongated leaves (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)

close-up of finely toothed leaf margins (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)

young leaves in spring (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)

male flower clusters (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)

close-up of male flowers (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)

old male flower clusters (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)

Salix x sepulcralis nothovar. chrysocoma

Scientific Name

Salix x sepulcralis Simonk. nothovar. chrysocoma (Dode) Meikle

Synonyms

Salix x chrysocoma Dode
Salix x sepulcralis Simonk. var. chrysocoma (Dode) Meikle

Family

Salicaceae

Common Names

golden weeping willow, weeping willow

Origin

Golden weeping willow (Salix x sepulcralis nothovar. chrysocoma) is a horticultural hybrid of golden willow (Salix alba var. vitellina) and weeping willow (Salix babylonica).

Naturalised Distribution

Widely naturalised in south-eastern Australia (i.e. New South Wales and Victoria).

Notes

Golden weeping willow (Salix x sepulcralis nothovar. chrysocoma) is regarded as an environmental weed or potential environmental weed in New South Wales, the ACT and Victoria. It is one of the willows (Salix spp.) that together as a group are regarded as a Weed of National Significance (WoNS).

Golden weeping willow (Salix x sepulcralis nothovar. chrysocoma) has become invasive along waterways, in wetlands, in riparian areas, around dams and in similar moist places. It is reasonably common around the Bathurst-Orange district in central New South Wales.