{"id":1243207,"date":"2011-03-27T15:20:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T15:20:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:49:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T13:19:35","slug":"salix-alba","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/salix-alba\/","title":{"rendered":"Salix alba (USA) ?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Salix alba<\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00a0?;<\/div>\n
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Tree For ID : Willow Species : California : 21OCT14 : AK-20<\/a> : 19 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (5)
\n<\/span>Tree seen in a park, probably Willow Species,<\/span> in Sacramento<\/span> on 7th Oct,14.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Name of this park was Willow Park… hence the suggested id.
\nReminded me of Weeping Willow seen in Kashmir.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Salix babylonica<\/i> ?<\/p>\n

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willow park is a neighborhood in the city and a small newer park
\nyour tree is in a grassy area
\n<\/span>most likely drought tolerant willow
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\n<\/span>I thought of Australian willow as most likely choice<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Thanks for a possible id …
\nOn searching, the Australian Willow has longer leaves than those in my pictures.<\/span><\/p>\n

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How can you judge?
\nIn your pictures I don’t see reference, like a pen, camera lens lid or a ruler, or failing all those just your own\u00a0 or somebody’s borrowed finger..
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\nalso, just the length of leaves don’t make a tree
\nI can show you Kadam trees with 18 to 24 inch long leaves…
\nbut they are still kadam …
\nwhen normal kadam leaf if at the most 6 or 7 inches at the longest…
\nits a complete package that makes a tree or a plant…\u00a0 even then it may not,
\nand just like the cannon ball like tree trunk no matter how much one wants to make it cannon ball tree one cant without supporting evidence because there are at least two ( I have pictures of at least one ) trees that have similar “cannon ball” like fruits on the bark of the trunk from exactly similar stalks…
\nlets be more scrutinizing
\nand more detail oriented… then and then only true diagnosis can be made…
\nso if you have more pictures\u00a0 of defining aspects please find them and submit…
\nwait till you go there again…
\nit happens, I have hundreds yet to be ided pics from all over the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thanks for your feedback.
\nI guess your choice of Australian Willow could be the right one.<\/span><\/div>\n
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or may be not
\ni had considered a colloquially known “silver leaf willow”
\nwhat is it botanically is anybody’s guess
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My search lead me to Salix alba<\/i>, where the underside of leaves is white in color.<\/p>\n

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well. silver leaf willow is more like it then.\u00a0salix alba<\/i> after all…<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I was able to find pictures of the bark. Hope these help.
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good.\u00a0<\/span>same tree? <\/span>these trees don’t live that very long, so why are the horticulture cuts so highly calloused and\u00a0 even have cavities , with perhaps fungi growing ?
\n<\/span>the white streaks on the surface next to the furrows (the furrows are ok)\u00a0 not explainable, unless its white lichen infection all over the tree trunk.\u00a0 was this side with white streaks facing north?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Frankly, I won’t be able to recollect the direction of this bark.<\/p>\n

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that’s ok, … it\u00a0 was a rhetorical thinking aloud kind of question<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
You were most likely rushing thru a whirlwind trip, so its ok.
\nAnyways, directions are not possible for many even where they live all their lives.<\/div>\n
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Can this be Salix alba<\/i> ‘Sericea’ ?<\/div>\n
Common name is Silver Willow<\/b> as you had suggested initially.<\/div>\n
Just a guess.
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I think it could be Salix alba only.\u00a0Not sure of the variety. I have seen these trees near Mountain view lake area (California).\u00a0Unable to trace the photographs taken by me.<\/p>\n

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Seems to be a Cv of Salix alba<\/i>, may be sericea<\/i>? Its pendulous branches also suggest its being\u00a0a hybrid between\u00a0S. alba<\/i> x S. babylonica<\/i>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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