Salix × subalpina
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Salix × subalpina Forbes
This, a hybrid between S. elaeagnos and S. repens, is said by Forbes (Salictum Woburnense, t. 93) to have been introduced from Switzerland. It is a low shrub of rather neat habit, branches ascending, downy, and retaining their down till the second year. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, usually tapered about equally at each end, 1 to 21⁄2 in. long, 1⁄4 to 5⁄8 in. wide, margins decurved; not or very slightly toothed towards the apex, bright green and downy (especially at first) above, permanently grey and woolly beneath; stalk 1⁄6 in. or less long. In his original description Forbes mentions having only seen the male. Catkins 1 to 11⁄4 in. long, slender, yellow.
As remarked in previous editions, the plants cultivated at Kew and Cambridge were also male; most probably they originated by vegetative propagation from the Woburn plant. But Forbes’ name is accepted as the valid one for hybrids between S. elaeagnos and S. repens, which occur occasionally in the wild.
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Genus
Other species 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 candida
- Salix caprea
- Salix cinerea
- Salix cordata
- Salix daphnoides
- 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 × mollissima
- Salix moupinensis
- Salix myrsinifolia
- Salix myrsinites
- Salix myrtilloides
- Salix nakamurana
- Salix nigra
- Salix nigricans
- 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 × sericans
- Salix sericea
- Salix silesiaca
- Salix starkeana
- Salix triandra
- Salix uva-ursi
- Salix viminalis
- Salix wilhelmsiana
This, a hybrid between S. elaeagnos and S. repens, is said by Forbes (Salictum Woburnense, t. 93) to have been introduced from Switzerland. It is a low shrub of rather neat habit, branches ascending, downy, and retaining their down till the second year. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, usually tapered about equally at each end, 1 to 21⁄2 in. long, 1⁄4 to 5⁄8 in. wide, margins decurved; not or very slightly toothed towards the apex, bright green and downy (especially at first) above, permanently grey and woolly beneath; stalk 1⁄6 in. or less long. In his original description Forbes mentions having only seen the male. Catkins 1 to 11⁄4 in. long, slender, yellow.
As remarked in previous editions, the plants cultivated at Kew and Cambridge were also male; most probably they originated by vegetative propagation from the Woburn plant. But Forbes’ name is accepted as the valid one for hybrids between S. elaeagnos and S. repens, which occur occasionally in the wild.
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