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Salix babylonica L.

Weeping willow

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Salix babylonica (weeping willow)

5/2/2014 · Post Office, Groton, Mass­a­chu­setts · ≈ 11 × 7″ (28 × 18 cm)

Salix babylonica (weeping willow)

5/2/2014 · Post Office, Groton, Mass­a­chu­setts · ≈ 6 × 8″ (14 × 20 cm)

Salix babylonica (weeping willow)

5/2/2014 · Post Office, Groton, Mass­a­chu­setts · ≈ 7 × 11″ (18 × 28 cm)

Salix babylonica (weeping willow)

5/2/2014 · Post Office, Groton, Mass­a­chu­setts · ≈ 1 × 2′ (39 × 59 cm)

KingdomPlantaePlants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin)
SubkingdomTracheobiontaVascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
DivisionMagnoliophytaFlowering plants, also known as angiosperms
ClassMagnoliopsidaDicotyledons—plants with two initial seed leaves
SubclassRosidaeRoses, legumes, proteas, dogwoods, hydrangeas, mistletoes, euphorbias, grapes, many more
OrderMalpighialesA broad group encompassing 16,000 species
FamilySalicaceaeWillow family
GenusSalixLatin for “willow,” meaning “to leap or spring,” a reference to its fast growth
SpeciesbabylonicaBabylonian, 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

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Salix babylonica description by Thomas H. Kent, not updated.

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