The silver pasture (Salix alba) is a deciduous tree in the kind of the pastures (Salix). The name of the plant comes from the appearing silvery narrow lanzettlichen

Spreading

The silver pasture is in completely Europe, North Africa and eastward until central Asia domestic. She loves damp locations and comes preferentially at waters and in valleys forwards.

Description

The silver pasture can reach a stature height of up to 28 meters as a tree. Younger trees have still another pointed-conical crown of tree; the crown of older trees works against it rather informally. The crust is dark grey with thick, closely standing together borders. The recent branches are thin and brightly grey-pink to olive brown. They are behaart close and are away in the pointed angle of the main impulse. The only 2 mm of small buds are violet. The sheets are darkly bluish gray; they are seidig white behaart on the top side; the lower surface is more briefly white behaart. The sheets are 7 to 8 cm long and about 1 cm broad; they sit at one about 5 mm long handle. The sit at handles. The male blooms are yellow, the female green and later wollig white.

Use

The silver pasture is cultivated frequently as Korbweide.

Breed forms

• "“Chermesina"”: This 1840 in Germany form developed are to be found in gardens and parks quite more frequently. It is called often also "“Britzensis"”. The tree grows in the youth narrowly conically and can become high about 25 m. The recent branches are dark red, in the winter to spring bright orange.
• "“Sericea"”: This "“Argentea"” form mentioned is many more also than the type. It is to be found in gardens and parks to some extent frequently. The sheets long to 10 cm are shining silver white by the long, white, seidige Behaarung on both sheet sides; thus the tree is already from a distance remarkable.

• "“Tristis"”: This form developed in France around 1815 is those all-side well-known mourning pasture. She is to be found frequent at waters and in parks. The tree can become high 22 m. The crown of tree is irregularly broadly curved; the long thin branches hang flabby down. The crust is brightly grey brown. The branches are in the spring strongly yellow, in the summer lightyellow. The sheets drive out in former times as with the type; they are also larger (up to 10 cm length and 1.5 cm broad). Most copies are male clones; sometimes however female blooms in the male occur. In the trade the mourning pasture is to be found frequently under the wrong designation S. babylonica.

By crossing with the Salix originating from China babylonica also new hybrids were bred, which are driven out likewise as "„mourning pasture "“(and just as frequently under the wrong designation S. babylonica).

Other

The silver pasture was the tree of the yearly 1999.

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