Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
These trees are usually no more than 12 m (39 ft) tall. Leaves are finely serrulate, pubescent or silky when young. Ovaries are short and flask-shaped, not much longer than the subtending catkin scale. They are usually intermediate between the parent species, showing the typical weeping willow appearance with leaves that are pale glaucous below.
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.
Willow species are hosts to more than a hundred aphid species, belonging to Chaitophorus and other genera, [16] forming large colonies to feed on plant juices, on the underside of leaves in particular. [17] Corythucha elegans, the willow lace bug, is a bug species in the family Tingidae found on willows in North America.
Salix acutifolia Willd. – violet willow; Salix aegyptiaca L. Salix aeruginosa E.Carranza; Salix alatavica Kar. ex Stschegl. Salix alaxensis (Andersson) Coville – Alaska willow; Salix alba L. – white willow; Salix alexii-skvortzovii A.P.Khokhr. Salix alpina Scop. – alpine willow; Salix amplexicaulis Bory & Chaub. Salix amygdaloides ...
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 ...
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]
Western Australian peppermint; Swan River peppermint; Australian willow myrtle Myrtaceae (myrtle family) Callistemon: callistemon trees; Callistemon viminalis: weeping bottlebrush Myrtaceae (myrtle family) Calyptranthes: mountainbays and lidflowers; Calyptranthes acevedoi: Puerto Rico mountainbay Myrtaceae (myrtle family) Calyptranthes pallens ...