Horticultural selections and related hybrids Salix babylonica

hybrid weeping willows (salix × sepulcralis chrysocoma ) in autumn, pendulous yellow branchlets (central park)

early chinese cultivar selections include original weeping willow, salix babylonica pendula , in branches , twigs pendulous, presumably spread along ancient trade routes. these distinctive trees subsequently introduced england aleppo in northern syria in 1730. these plants females, readily propagated vegetatively, , capable of hybridizing various other kinds of willows, not breeding true seed.

two cultivated hybrids between pendulous salix babylonica , other species of salix willows have pendulous branchlets, , more commonly planted s. babylonica itself:

salix × pendulina, hybrid s. babylonica accepted female parent, male parent unidentified, being either s. euxina or s. × fragilis, perhaps s. pentandra. of these possibilities, s. × fragilis hybrid, s. alba , s. euxina parental species.
salix × sepulcralis, hybrid between s. alba , s. babylonica.

cultivars derived either of these hybrids better adapted s. babylonica more humid climates of heavily populated regions of europe , north america.

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