Tags: Cultivar (Cultivated Variety).
The Salix sepulcralis group is a cultivar group containing all cultivars of hybrids between Salix alba and Salix babylonica. It was first described by L. Simonkai in 1890 from trees growing in Hungary. The group contains both weeping and nonweeping cultivars though the best-known of its cultivars is ‘Chrysocoma’ the most widely grown weeping tree.. Some of the cultivars are hybrids of S. babylonica var.
