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How long does a weeping willow live?

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That's all I'm wondering. How long does a weeping willow live?

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  1. I.ve got answers that it is 30-40 year life span...very short...

    The Weeping Willow

    (Salix Babylonica)

    Interesting Information About Plant:

      

         The Weeping Willow tree is a native of the extra-tropical Asia and belongs to the group the Crack Willows. This oriental tree’s bark owns mainly all of the medicinal and tanning properties of the willow group. It has been long known in China and Turkey that the Weeping Willow is known its tearful symbolism, used in some places as a cemetery ornament signifying an association of grief for the loved one in the grave. In the ancient times the torches used in funerals were made precisely by Willow wood. It could have been a tree of ill omen as well as in ancient Babylon it is said the soothsayers predicted the death of Alexander the Great deriving from the fact that it was the Willow that swept the crown from his head as he was crossing the Euphrates river in a boat.  

    Scientific Name: Salix Babylonica

    Family Name (Scientific and Common): Salicaceae

    Continent of Origin: China

    Plant Growth Habit: Tree

    Height at Maturity: More than 10 Feet

    Life Span: Perennial

    Seasonal Habit: Deciduous Perennial

    Growth Habitat: Full Sun

    Manner of Culture: Native Species  

    Thorns on Younger Stem: No

    Cross Section of Younger Stem: Roundish

    Stem (or Trunk) Diameter: More Than The Diameter of a Coffee-Mug  

    Produces Brownish Bark: Yes

    Bark Peeling in Many Areas: Yes  

    Characteristics of Mature (Brownish) Bark: Bumpy

    Type of Leaf: Flat, Thin Leaf

    Length of Leaf (or Leaflet): Between the Length of a Credit Card and a Writing-Pen  

    Leaf Complexity: Simple  

    Edge of Leaf: Smooth  

    Leaf Arrangement: Alternate

    Leaf has Petiole: Yes  

    Patterns of Main-Veins on Leaf (or Leaflet): Pinnate  

    Leaf Hairiness: No Hairs

    Color of Foliage in Summer: Green  

    Change in Color of Foliage in October: Changes to Yellow  

    FLowering Season: Spring  

    Flowers: Single  

    Type of Flower: Like a Grass Flower  

    Color of Flower: Yellow    

    Shape of Individual Flower: Radially symmetrical

    Size of Individual Flower: Smaller than a Quarter  

    Sexuality: Male and Female on Same Plant

    Size of Fruit: Between a Quarter and the Length of a Credit Card

    Fruit Fleshiness: Fleshy  

    Shape of Fruit: Long Pod  

    Color of Fruit at Maturity: Brown or Dry

    Fruit Desirable to Birds or Squirrels: Yes    

    Common Name(s): Weeping Willow    

    Louisville Plants That Are Most Easily Confused With This One: The Weeping Cherry, others in the Weeping family

    Unique Morphological Features of Plant: Sad droopy look of the braches hanging down, “Crying” of the tree when it rains (rain drops travel from the branches to the ends of the leaves and fall to the ground)

    Poisonous: None of Plant

    Pestiness (weedy, hard to control): Yes  



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    Russell Miller                                                        

    November 2004


  2. They have a relatively short lifespan. 40 years or so.  

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