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Salix humboldtiana, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
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#148 most planted

Salix humboldtiana

Humboldt's willow · also Sause Colorado, Sauce, Sauce amargo

12,763
trees mapped
0.12%
of all named trees
2
cities
17 in
median trunk (42 cm, 304 measured)

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Salix humboldtiana, also known as Humboldt's willow, is a tree native from Mexico to southern South America. It has traditional medicinal and material uses and is valued for its environmental benefits.

Where it grows

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

  1. Bogotá · Colombia
    12,452——
  2. Buenos Aires · Argentina
    311—17 in

No city in this list records planting dates for this species, so age is blank throughout.

Native range

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

Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

  • Central American Atlantic moist forests
  • Central American montane forests
  • Northwest Andean montane forests
  • Western Ecuador moist forests

Other Salix in the catalogue

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

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