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Species
Salix babylonica var. crispa hort. ex Loudon
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Tamil Nadu: Nilgiri
1400-3650 m
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Habit: Tree
Tree up to 40 m tall. Branches long, drooping; bark deeply fishered, grayish. Leaf stipulate, stipules obliquely lanceolate or ovate, toothed or subulate. Petiole 3-5(10) mm long. Lamina 8-16 x 0.8-1.5 cm., narrowly elliptic to linear lanceolate, serrulate, acuminate, glabrous or with sparse adpressed hairs. Catkins appearing before or with leaves, borne or short leafy stalks. Male catkin up to 2.5 cm long. Bracts ovate lanceolate, slightly hairy below. Stamens 2, free, hairy at the base. Female catkin up to 5 cm long. Flowers with one oblong gland, longer than stipe. Ovary subsessile, ovoid, glabrous, style short, stigma 2-4 parted. Capsule 3-4 mm.
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Foodplant / mobile cased feeder
larva of Cryptocephalus coryli grazes in mobile case on fallen leaf of Salix babylonica
Remarks: captive: in captivity, culture, or experimentally induced
Foodplant / saprobe
Diplodina coelomycetous anamorph of Cryptodiaporthe salicella is saprobic on dead twig of Salix babylonica
Remarks: season: 1-2
In Great Britain and/or Ireland:
Foodplant / saprobe
scattered, radially plurilocular or subplurilocular stroma of Cytospora coelomycetous anamorph of Cytospora translucens is saprobic on twig of Salix babylonica
Remarks: season: Spring
Foodplant / feeds on
scattered, black, subepidermal, covered pycnidium of Diplodina coelomycetous anamorph of Diplodina salicis feeds on twig of Salix babylonica
Remarks: season: 12-4
Foodplant / saprobe
rather densely gregarious, subepidermal, emergent pycnidium of Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph of Phomopsis salicina is saprobic on dead branch of Salix babylonica
Remarks: season: 10-5
Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Trametes ochracea is saprobic on dead wood of Salix babylonica
Foodplant / spot causer
Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph of Venturia saliciperda causes spots on live shoot of Salix babylonica
Remarks: season: summer
Trees to 18 m tall; bark grayish black, irregularly furrowed, Branchlets pendulous, brownish yellow, brownish, or slightly purple, slender, glabrous. Buds linear, apex acute. Stipules lanceolate or ovate-orbicular, those of shoots obliquely lanceolate; petiole (3-)5-10 mm; leaf blade narrowly lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 9-16 × 0.5-1.5 cm, abaxially light green, adaxially green, both surfaces glabrous or slightly pilose, base cuneate, margin serrate, apex long acuminate. Male catkin 1.5-2(-3) cm; peduncle short; bracts lanceolate, abaxially pilose. Male flower: glands 2; stamens 2, ca. as long as to longer than bracts, ± long pubescent at base; anthers reddish yellow. Female catkin 2-3(-6) cm, with 3 or 4 leaves on peduncle; bracts lanceolate, 1.8-2(-2.5) mm, abaxially pilose. Female flower: gland adaxial; ovary ellipsoid, glabrous or minutely pubescent proximally, sessile or subsessile; style short; stigma 2-4-parted. Capsule slightly greenish brown, 3-4 mm. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. Apr-May. 2n = 63, 72, 76.
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Canada
Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable
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Widespread throughout China [Asia, Europe]
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Rounded Global Status Rank: GNR - Not Yet Ranked
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Fl. Per.: February-March.
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