Poplar family : SALICACEAE (DILLENIIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Christine Ashe

Plant Classes

Flacourtia species Flacourtia Magnetic Island Photo courtesy of Robin Schaer

Populus nigra Lombardy Poplar Sydney, August 2006

Salix babylonica Weeping Willow Morwell Park, September 1991

Salix cinerea Grey Sallow Morwell Park, September 1991

Salix discolor American Pussy Willow Sydney, September 2007

Salix fragilis Crack Willow Morwell Park, September 1991

Scolopia braunii Flintwood Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens, September 2009

Caterpillars of some Butterflies and Moths in Australia can utilise species in SALICACEAE as their foodplant, including:

Netrocoryne repanda

Phalanta phalantha

Cupha prosope

Eloasa infrequens

Teia anartoides

Cerura australis

Ostrinia furnacalis

Protonoceras mitis

Cryptoptila immersana

Cryptophasa albacosta

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 4 January 2013, 8 March 2018, 29 May 2020)