Latin name: Salix alba I.
Salix alba is a species of willow native to Europe
and western and central Asia.
Salix alba(white willow)
is a species of willow native to Europe and western and central Asia.
It is now rare in cultivation and has been largely replaced by Salix x sepulcralis'Chrysocoma.
Salix alba'Vitellina-Tristis'(golden weeping willow,
synonym'Tristis') is a weeping cultivar with yellow branches that become reddish-orange in winter.
In a short rotation plantation fast-growing and ausschlagfähige tree species, especially poplars(genus Populus)
or pastures(genus Salix) are used.
It readily forms natural hybrids with crack willow Salix fragilis,
the hybrid being named Salix × rubens Schrank.
A number of cultivars and hybrids have been
selected for forestry and horticultural use: Salix alba'Caerulea' cricket-bat willow; syn.
Salix coerulea was the best performer as far as height growth was concerned
whereas UWU-2 was the front runner amongst the introduced clones.
Screening of Salix clones: Screening of 14 imported clones
and six provenances of Salix was carried out keeping in view their height-growth performance and their resistance towards insect-pest incidences with special reference to Aphid attack.