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Salix babylonica - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Vila de Prado, Braga, Portugal; 3/2008 © Jörn Germer

Salix babylonica - Male catkin - Click to enlarge!

Male catkin; Caminha, Viana do Castelo, Portugal; 5/2006 © Jörn Germer

Salix babylonica - Male catkin close-up - Click to enlarge!

Male catkin close-up; Vila de Prado, Braga, Portugal; 3/2008 © Jörn Germer

Salix babylonica - Branch with male catkins - Click to enlarge!

Branch with male catkins; Vila de Prado, Braga, Portugal; 3/2008 © Jörn Germer

Salix babylonica - Brach with female catkins - Click to enlarge!

Brach with female catkins; Caminha, Viana do Castelo, Portugal; 5/2006 © Jörn Germer

Salix babylonica - Top and lower side of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Top and lower side of leaf; Caminha, Viana do Castelo, Portugal; 5/2006 © Jörn Germer

Salix babylonica - Branch - Click to enlarge!

Branch; Caminha, Viana do Castelo, Portugal; 5/2006 © Jörn Germer

Salix babylonica - Bark - Click to enlarge!

Bark; Caminha, Viana do Castelo, Portugal; 5/2006 © Jörn Germer

Salix babylonica - Habit of park tree, the lower branches are pruned - Click to enlarge!

Habit of park tree, the lower branches are pruned; Caminha, Viana do Castelo, Portugal; 5/2006 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 322
Date of entry: 04.05.2006
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Weeping willow

German: Trauerweide

Mandarin: 垂柳 (chui liu)

Portuguese: Salgueiro-chorão

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Malpighiales (120)

        Family: Salicaceae (11)(family description)

          Genus: Salix (5)

            Epithet: babylonica L. (1)

babylonica => of Babylonia origin (Babylonia was a state in Lower Mesopotamia (Iraq), with Babylon as its capital)

Characteristics

Climate: temperate

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: tree

Flower colour: green, yellow

External links

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