Weeping willow
বেবিলন উইলো
Salix babylonica L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- 11 m
- wide
- 11 m
Salicaceae
Also called Chinese weeping willow, Tortured willow, Corkscrew willow, Chinese willow, Globe willow
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- N. & E. China to KoreaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 9.1 m to 12 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 9.1 m to 12 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- GreenRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -23.3 °C (USDA zone 6a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- sauce llorón, Sauce torturado, Sauce llorón
- Chinese
- 垂柳, 旱柳, 青皮柳
- Portuguese
- Salgueiro-chorão
- Russian
- Ива плакучая, Ива вавилонская
- Hebrew
- ערבה בוכיה, ערבת בבל
- Czech
- vrba babylónská, vrba Matsudova
- Dutch
- Groene treurwilg, Kronkelwilg, Wilg#Krulwilg
- Swedish
- tårpil
- Japanese
- シダレヤナギ, シバヤナギ, タチヤナギ
- Lithuanian
- Svyruoklinis gluosnis
- Chinese (China)
- 垂柳, 垂枝柳, 倒挂柳
- Estonian
- babüloni remmelgas
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Salix babylonica (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.