Taxon:
Salix babylonica L.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:1017. 1753
Verified:
11/07/1985
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
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Common names
English
Babylon weeping willow – Peking willow – weeping willow – Afrikaans
treurwilger – French
saule de Babylone – saule pleureur – German
Trauerweide – Japanese Rōmaji
shidare-yanagi – Spanish
sauce de Babilonia – sauce llorón –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | widely cult. |
4 | Naturalized | Africa | Southern Africa | Lesotho | | |
4 | Naturalized | Africa | Southern Africa | South Africa | | |
4 | Naturalized | Australasia | Australia | Australia | | |
4 | Naturalized | Australasia | New Zealand | New Zealand | | |
4 | Naturalized | Europe | | Europe | | |
4 | Naturalized | Northern America | | United States | | |
Native
Asia-Temperate
Cultivated
(widely cult.)
Naturalized
Africa
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SOUTHERN AFRICA:
Lesotho, South Africa
Australasia
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AUSTRALIA:
Australia
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NEW ZEALAND:
New Zealand
Europe
Northern America
Economic Uses
Environmental
Materials
wood (timber fide Ency WTimber; Invasive Pl Spec) – Medicines
folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2) – Weed
potential seed contaminant (fide Rep NCEPPC; Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001) –