Common name
Weeping Willow
Informal group
Plants
Territories
Island
Tristan
Inaccessible
Habitat
1. Forest
- 1.4. Forest – Temperate
5. Wetlands (inland)
- 5.1. Wetlands (inland) – Permanent rivers/streams/creeks (includes waterfalls)
Ecological impact detail
Not invasive (Wave & Dickson 1965).
Other notes
Inaccessible: A few trees in Spartina tussock at Salt Beach [2].
Pathway detail
planted to provide wood for longboat spars [1]
References
[1] Ryan, P. (ed.) (2007). Field Guide to the Animals and Plants of Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island. Pisces Publications, Newbury. 162 pp; [2] Gremmen, N. J. M. (2010). Alien vascular plants of Inaccessible, Nightingale and Gough Islands (Tristan da Cunha Group).; [3] Wace, N.M. & Dickson, J.H. (1965). The terrestrial botany of the Tristan da Cunha islands. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, B, 249: 273–360