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Salix aurita, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
(c) Rudolf Schäfer, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA
#1651 most planted

Salix aurita

Eared willow

25
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
4
cities
8.8 in
median trunk (22 cm, 4 measured)
7.8 yr
median age (76% have a planting date)

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A European native shrub, typically growing up to 2.5 meters tall, characterized by reddish petioles, young twigs, and distinctive kidney-shaped stipules. It is widely distributed across much of Europe.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Copenhagen · Denmark
    187.8 yr—
  2. Paris · France
    5—8.8 in
  3. Amsterdam · Netherlands
    1——
  4. Vancouver · Canada
    1—2.0 in

Traits

Mature height
8.2 ft
Blooms
Mar, Apr, May

Trunk diameters across every city: median 8.8 in, mean 8.3 in, 90th percentile 12 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.

Native range

Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

  • Baltic mixed forests
  • Central European mixed forests
  • East European forest steppe
  • European Atlantic mixed forests

Other Salix in the catalogue

34 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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