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Salix babylonica (Babylon willow or weeping willow; Chinese: 垂柳; pinyin: chuí liǔ) is a species of willow native to dry areas of northern China, Korea, Mongolia, Japan, and Siberia but cultivated for millennia elsewhere in Asia, being traded along the Silk Road to southwest Asia and Europe.
Salix × sepulcralis 'Chrysocoma', or Weeping Golden Willow, is the most popular and widely grown weeping tree in the warm temperate regions of the world. It is an artificial hybrid between S. alba 'Vitellina' and S. babylonica. The first parent provides the frost hardiness and the golden shoots and the second parent the strong weeping habit.
– Arctic willow; Salix babylonica L. – Babylon willow, Peking willow or weeping willow; Salix bebbiana Sarg. – beaked willow, long-beaked willow, or Bebb's willow; Salix caprea L. – goat willow or pussy willow; Salix cinerea L. – grey willow; Salix discolor Muhl. – American pussy willow or glaucous willow; Salix euxina I.V.Belyaeva ...
Salix barclayi Andersson – Barclay's willow; Salix barrattiana Hook. – Barratt's willow; Salix bebbiana Sarg. – beaked willow; Salix berberifolia Pall. Salix bhutanensis; Salix bicolor Ehrh. ex Willd. Salix bikouensis Y.L.Chou; Salix blakii Goerz; Salix blinii H.Lév. Salix bonplandiana Kunth – Bonpland willow, ahuejote; Salix boothii ...
The galls are found on almond willow (Salix triandra), Babylon willow (S. babylonica), bay willow (S. pentandra), common osier (S. viminalis), crack willow (S. fragilis), eared willow , olive willow (S. elaeagnos), purple willow (S. purpurea) and white willow .
The Salix Sepulcralis Group is a cultivar group containing all cultivars of hybrids between Salix alba and Salix babylonica.The trees in this group are sometimes referred to as white weeping willow or glaucous weeping willow in reference to the mixed appearance from the parent species.
The boats which come down the river to Babylon are circular, and made of skins. The frames, which are of willow, are cut in the country of the Armenians above Assyria, and on these, which serve for hulls, a covering of skins is stretched outside, and thus the boats are made, without either stem or stern, quite round like a shield. They are then ...
Weeping Atlas Cedar Golden weeping willow: Salix Sepulcralis Group 'Chrysocoma' Weeping trees are trees characterized by soft, limp twigs. [1] This characterization may lead to a bent crown and pendulous branches that can cascade to the ground. While weepyness occurs in nature, most weeping trees are cultivars. [1]