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habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of older branches (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

weeping branches with elongated leaves (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

leaves with finely toothed margins (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

flower clusters along the drooping younger stems (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

female flower clusters, on short leafy side branches (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of female flowers (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

Salix x pendulina

Scientific Name

Salix x pendulina Wender.

Family

Salicaceae

Common Names

pendulous willow, weeping willow, Wisconsin weeping willow

Origin

This is a horticultural hybrid of weeping willow (Salix babylonica) and crack willow (Salix fragilis) that was developed in Germany.

Naturalised Distribution

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

Notes

Pendulous willow (Salix x pendulina) is regarded as an environmental weed in New South Wales and Victoria. It is one of the willows (Salix spp.) that together as a group are regarded as a Weed of National Significance (WoNS).

Pendulous willow (Salix x pendulina) has been planted quite extensively in south-eastern Australia, usually as along rivers, around lakes and in similar moist places. It has become invasive in such areas (i.e. along waterways, in wetlands, around dams and in riparian areas.

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