Salix sepulcralis group Salix sepulcralis group The "Salix sepulcralis" group is a cultivar group containing all cultivars of hybrids between "Salix alba" and "Salix babylonica". The "sepulcralis" or × "sepulcralis" trees are sometimes referred to as white weeping willow or glaucous weeping willow in reference to the mixed appearance from the parent species. It was first described by L. Simonkai in 1890 from trees growing in Romania. The group contains both weeping and nonweeping cultivars, though the best-known of its cultivars is 'Chrysocoma', the most widely grown weeping tree.. Some of the cultivars are hybrids of "S. babylonica" var. "matsudana" 'Tortuosa' and have
Salix pedicellata cylindrical, about 1.25 mm long and 0.5 mm wide. "Salix pedicellata" was first described by René Desfontaines in 1799. "Salix canariensis" is treated by some taxonomists as a subspecies of "S. pedicellata", under the name "S. pedicellata" subsp. "canariensis", so that the species "S. pedicellata" becomes "S. pedicellata" subsp. "pedicellata". It hybridizes with "Salix atrocinerea". "Salix pedicellata" is native to some of the countries around the Mediterranean, in Europe (Portugal, Spain, mainland Italy, Sicily, mainland Greece and Crete), western North Africa (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) and Western Asia (the East Aegean Islands, Turkey and Lebanon-Syria). It has been introduced to