Salix alba var. vitellina

VVP, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, DunT. Also naturalised SA, NSW, ACT, Tas. Indigenous origins obscure, long cultivated in Britain and Europe. Naturalised in New Zealand. Very widely cultivated and vegetatively naturalized for the most part; plants are almost always female. Populations are frequent but not large as the twigs are not very brittle. Abundantly recruiting from seed in some locations (e.g. Broken River, north-east Victoria) but pollen donor is probably Salix fragilis nothovar. fragilis. Salix alba var. vitellina is one of the parents of S. fragilis nothovar. fragilis. It is also a parent of S. ×sepulcralis var. chrysocoma and several related hybrids of uncertain parentage.