Hort. Sci. (Prague), 2017, 44(1):43-48 | DOI: 10.17221/201/2015-HORTSCI

Salt-tolerant trees usable for Central European cities - ReviewReview

Božena Šerá*
Department of Biology, Faculty of Education, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, České Budějovice, Czech Republic Department of Landscape Ecology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia

The present text is focused on an actual problem of planting of inappropriate tree taxa in many cities. It explains the causes of contaminated soils by winter salt management and principles of the toxic effect on plants. The paper summarizes the problem and brings solution. Town places with salt-contaminated soil should not be fitted with: spruce (Picea), pine (Pinus), linden (Tilia) and maples (Acer). On the other hand, resistant species are: ash (Fraxinus), poplar (Populus), willow (Salix), silverberry (Eleagnus), black locust (Robinia). Both lists of sensitive and salt-tolerant tree species have been presented. Salt-tolerant tree should be preferred before all the others species.

Keywords: urban area; management; salinity; town; landscape planning

Published: March 31, 2017  Show citation

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Šerá B. Salt-tolerant trees usable for Central European cities - Review. Hort. Sci. (Prague). 2017;44(1):43-48. doi: 10.17221/201/2015-HORTSCI.
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