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Salix cavaleriei

Salix cavaleriei
Photo: 阿橋 HQ, CC BY-SA 2.0

Salix cavaleriei is a large willow tree from southwest China, growing up to about 18 to 25 metres, valued for wood and for stabilising riverbanks. It is a moisture-loving tree best suited to damp soils and open, sunny sites.

Family
Salicaceae (Willow family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist, especially when young; it naturally grows along rivers and damp forest edges.
Soil
Moist, fertile, well-drained loam or riverside soil.
Temperature
Hardy in cool temperate conditions; native to mountain climates at 1800 to 2500 m, so tolerates cold winters.
How easy
Easy
Native range
SC. China (to Guangxi)
Climate
temperate

About

Salix cavaleriei is a large tree from the genus of willow (Salix) with a gray-brown, furrowed bark. The leaf blades have lengths of 4 to 11 centimetres (1.6 to 4.3 in). The natural range of the species is in China. It is planted for logging and for fastening embankments.

Where it grows

The natural range is in the Chinese provinces of Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Yunnan. It grows along rivers and in damp forest edges at altitudes of 1800 to 2500 meters.

Uses

Salix cavaleriei is used to fortify embankments and serves as a supplier of wood.

Other Salix plants

Salix abscondita · Common Middle East Willow · Siberian Violet Willow · Salix aegyptiaca · Salix aeruginosa · Salix alatavica · Feltleaf willow · White willow · Salix alexii-skvortzovii · Salix alpina · Peachleaf willow · Salix annulifera

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Salix cavaleriei by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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