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Salix × mollissima
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Salix × mollissima' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Infraspecifics
Other taxa in genus
- Salix aegyptiaca
- Salix alba
- Salix amygdaloides
- Salix arbuscula
- Salix arbutifolia
- Salix arctica
- Salix aurita
- Salix babylonica
- Salix bockii
- Salix 'Boydii'
- Salix caesia
- Salix × calodendron
- Salix candida
- Salix caprea
- Salix cinerea
- Salix cordata
- Salix daphnoides
- Salix × dasyclados
- Salix discolor
- Salix elaeagnos
- Salix exigua
- Salix fargesii
- Salix fragilis
- Salix glabra
- Salix glaucosericea
- Salix gracilistyla
- Salix hastata
- Salix herbacea
- Salix hookeriana
- Salix humboldtiana
- Salix irrorata
- Salix japonica
- Salix jessoensis
- Salix lanata
- Salix lapponum
- Salix lasiandra
- Salix lindleyana
- Salix lucida
- Salix magnifica
- Salix matsudana
- Salix × meyeriana
- Salix moupinensis
- Salix myrsinifolia
- Salix myrsinites
- Salix myrtilloides
- Salix nakamurana
- Salix nigra
- Salix nigricans
- Salix nipponica
- Salix pentandra
- Salix petiolaris
- Salix phylicifolia
- Salix purpurea
- Salix pyrenaica
- Salix pyrifolia
- Salix repens
- Salix reticulata
- Salix retusa
- Salix rigida
- Salix × rubra
- Salix sachalinensis
- Salix scouleriana
- Salix × sepulcralis
- Salix sericea
- Salix silesiaca
- Salix × smithiana
- Salix starkeana
- Salix × subalpina
- Salix triandra
- Salix triandra
- Salix uva-ursi
- Salix viminalis
- Salix wilhelmsiana
A group of hybrids between S. triandra and S. viminalis. The two parents are both important basket willows, with numerous commercial varieties, both male and female, and must over the centuries have crossed spontaneously on numerous occasions, giving rise to seedlings which have in turn proved useful for basket-work and been extensively propagated. The type was a female plant which seems to have been near to S. viminalis. It is not known in this country, where the group is represented by the following:
From the Supplement (Vol. V)
For a discussion of this hybrid, see Meikle (op. cit), pp. 66–9. ‘Lanceolata’ is there treated under the botanical name var. undulata (Ehrh.) Wimm.
'Lanceolata'
A large shrub with olive-brown branchlets; bark of the older stems flaking, as in S. triandra. Leaves 3 to 5 in. long, finely tapered at the apex, densely serrated, silky at first, soon glabrous, bright green. Stipules usually persistent. A female clone: catkins dense, narrowly cylindric, erect, up to 2{1/2} in. long, appearing as the leaves unfold on short, leafy peduncles; scales strap-shaped, yellowish, thinly hairy. Ovary glabrous, more shortly stalked than in S. triandra, with a distinct style. This willow, fairly widely distributed in Britain, was described by Sir James Smith (as S. lanceolata) and belongs botanically to var. (nothomorph) undulata (Ehrh.) Wimmer (syn. S. undulata Ehrh.; S. undulata var. lanceolata (Sm.) Anderss.). It was at one time thought to be a hybrid between S. alba and S. triandra.var. hippophaeifolia (Thuill.)
Synonyms
S. hippophaefolia Thuill.
S. multiformis var. hippophaifolia (Thuill.) Anderss