Salix sepulcralis group inheritied from its parent the twisted and contorted branches, as well as being more cold-tolerant, as "S. babylonica" var." matsudana" is native to northern China and Korea. These trees are usually no more than tall. Leaves are finely serrulate, pubescent or silky when young. Ovaries are short and flask-shaped, not much longer than the subtending catkin scale. They are usually intermediate between the parent species, showing the typical weeping willow appearance with leaves that are pale glaucous below. But as an ornamental tree with high diversity, trees may look closer to either parent or different entirely. Salix sepulcralis group The
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