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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.
The willow is one of the four species associated with the Jewish festival of Sukkot, or the Feast of Tabernacles, cited in Leviticus 23:40. Willow branches are used during the synagogue service on Hoshana Rabbah, the seventh day of Sukkot. In Buddhism, a willow branch is one of the chief attributes of Guanyin, the bodhisattva of compassion.
Salix babylonica L. – Babylon willow, Peking willow; Salix baileyi C.K.Schneid. Salix balansae Seemen; Salix balfouriana C.K.Schneid. Salix ballii Dorn; Salix bangongensis Z.Wang & C.F.Fang; Salix barclayi Andersson – Barclay's willow; Salix barrattiana Hook. – Barratt's willow; Salix bebbiana Sarg. – beaked willow; Salix berberifolia ...
The gall is a small dimple (< 3 mm) on the underside of a willow leaf. Inside is a flat nymph which is surrounded with wax. The gall is raised on the upper surface of the leaf. [2] If there is a heavy infestation, leaves (especially younger ones) may curl. [3]
The gall of A. magnirostris is a long, 1–2 mm narrow twisted, downward roll on the leaves of eared willow , crack willow (S. fragilis) and their hybrids in Great Britain. The gall is lined with red hairs and contains the mites. [1] Elsewhere it has been found on Babylon willow (S. babylonica) and purple willow . [2]
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 ...
Salix gracilistyla [1] is a species of willow native to Japan, Korea and China known in English as the rose-gold pussy willow. [ 2 ] It is a deciduous shrub that reaches a height of 1–6 m.