Salix babylonica L.
Weeping willow
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| Kingdom | Plantae | Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin) |
| Subkingdom | Tracheobionta | Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients |
| Division | Magnoliophyta | Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms |
| Class | Magnoliopsida | Dicotyledons—plants with two initial seed leaves |
| Subclass | Rosidae | Roses, legumes, proteas, dogwoods, hydrangeas, mistletoes, euphorbias, grapes, many more |
| Order | Malpighiales | A broad group encompassing 16,000 species |
| Family | Salicaceae | Willow family |
| Genus | Salix | Latin for “willow,” meaning “to leap or spring,” a reference to its fast growth |
| Species | babylonica | Babylonian, or having something to do with Babylon. Apparently, Linnaeus thought the weeping willow (S. babylonica) came from south-west Asia, rather than the Far East, where it is native to. The “willows” of the waters of Babylon are now considered to have been Populus euphratica |
Salix babylonica description by Thomas H. Kent, not updated.
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