Salicaceae

Salix babylonica

Salix L. Salix babylonica L. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: ağaç Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 4 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 4 Habitat: dere kıyıları Minimum yükseklik: 0 Maksimum yükseklik: 1300 Endemik: - Element: ? Türkiye dağılımı: Dış Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Çin, Avrupa, GB. Asya Bulunduğu kareler :--

S. babylonica L., Sp. PL 1017 (1753). Ic: Andersson, Monogr. Sal. t. 3, f. 32(1867). Figure 21.   Tree to 15 m tall, usually with drooping ('weeping') branches; bark deeply fissured, greyish. Vegetative and floral buds dissimilar. Leaves narrowly elliptic to linear-lanceolate, c. 10 x as long as broad, 8-16 x 0.8-1.5 cm, obliquely attenuate-acuminate, margins densely and minutely serrulate, glabrous or with sparse adpressed hairs; petiole short, 3-5 mm. Catkins pendulous, appear-ing before or with leaves, borne on short leafy stalks or subsessile with cata-phylls subtending them; male to 2.5 cm, stamens 2, filaments hairy towards base; female to 5 cm, flowers with 1 oblong nectary, longer than pedicels; ovary ovoid, glabrous, subsessile. Fl. 4. River banks, nr s. l.-1300 m; frequently planted.   Described from the Orient, Tournefort (Hb. Linn. 1158/21!).   Mainly Outer Anatolia. A1(E) Kırklareli: Demirköy, Örnek (ISTO 8878)! A2(E) Istanbul: Tarabya, 1 iii 1896, Azn.! A2(A) Bursa: Bursa, Tchihatcheff (fide Görz 1930:118). A5 Amasya: Amasya,Bornm. 1890:677! A7Gümüşane: Taltaban by Ardassa Çay, Sint. 1894:5443! A8 Rize: Rize, Görz 677! B1 Izmir: Izmir, Forsskål! C5 Içel: Tarsus to Namrun, 1300 m, Batibeki (ISTO 7735)!   Native to China; widely introduced in Europe and S.W. Asia. The hybrid with S. fragilis was described as S. x blanda Andersson.-Monogr. Sal. 50 (1867); it was recorded from near Ankara by Görz (Sal. As. no. 42) and was probably planted.