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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 reason it happens is because bark is a dead tissue that can’t expand as a tree’s trunk grows larger. All it can do is pop off in pieces and fall to the ground.
Salix alba 'Vitellina-Tristis' (golden weeping willow, synonym 'Tristis') is a weeping cultivar with yellow branches that become reddish-orange in winter. It is now rare in cultivation and has been largely replaced by Salix x sepulcralis 'Chrysocoma' .
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Both tannin and salicin can be extracted from goat willow bark. The tree is not considered a good source of timber , as its wood is both brittle and known to crackle violently if burned. As with the closely related Salix discolor (American pussy willow), it is also often grown for cut flowers.
Weeping willow is an ornamental tree (Salix babylonica and related hybrids) Weeping willow or Weeping Willows may also refer to: Art.
Common symptoms are an uneven surface caused by setae (surface hairs) and a grey or brown surface tinted lilac on the tree bark. The main sign is the presence of white fruiting bodies that form crusts attached to the trees, typically on the bark of the trunk. Setae can also be seen on the tree bark in the trunk and branches.