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"Green Willow" is a Japanese ghost story in which a young samurai falls in love with a woman called Green Willow who has a close spiritual connection with a willow tree. [77] "The Willow Wife" is another, not dissimilar tale. [78] "Wisdom of the Willow Tree" is an Osage Nation story in which a young man seeks answers from a willow tree ...
It is a deciduous shrub or small tree, reaching a height of 8–10 m (26–33 ft), rarely to 13 m.. The leaves are 3–12 cm long and from 2–8 cm wide, broader than most other willows.
Various cultivars of Salix matsudana (Chinese willow) are now often included within Salix babylonica, treated more broadly, including: 'Pendula' is one of the best weeping trees, with a silvery shine, hardier, and more disease resistant. 'Tortuosa' is an upright tree with twisted and contorted branches, marketed as corkscrew willow.
Salix cinerea seeds on a birch tree branch. Grey willow grows in wetlands, moist depressions, ditches, embankments, banks of stagnant or slow-moving water bodies, and forest edges, where it encounters low-lying damp situations with waterlogged and nutrient-poor soils. S. cinerea is a pioneer species that rapidly colonizes disturbed sites. [8]
Tuberolachnus salignus is known to feed primarily on willow and Salix tree species such as the white willow , the common sallow (Salix cinerea') [16] and the Indian willow (Salix tetrasperma). [17] It has also been recorded on Quince (Cydonia oblonga), [18] Apple (Malus spp.) [18] and Poplar (Populus spp.) [18]
Salix sitchensis is a species of willow known by the common name Sitka willow.. It is native to northwestern North America from Alaska to northern California to Montana.. It is a common to abundant plant in many types of coastal and inland wetland habitat, such as marshes, riverbanks, swamps, coastal sand dunes, and mountain springs.
The Salicaceae are the willow family of flowering plants. The traditional family (Salicaceae sensu stricto ) included the willows, poplars. Genetic studies summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) have greatly expanded the circumscription of the family to contain 56 genera and about 1220 species, including the tropical ...
Salix arbusculoides is a species of flowering plant in the willow family known by the common name little tree willow. [2] It is native to northern North America, where its distribution extends across Alaska and most of Canada. [3] This willow is a shrub or tree growing up to 9 meters tall. It has many branches with smooth gray or reddish-brown ...