Species of tree
Salix babylonica
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom:
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Plantae
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Clade:
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Tracheophytes
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Clade:
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Angiosperms
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Clade:
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Eudicots
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Clade:
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Rosids
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Order:
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Malpighiales
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Family:
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Salicaceae
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Genus:
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Salix
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Species:
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S. babylonica
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Binomial name
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Salix babylonica
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Synonyms[2]
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- Ficus salix H.Lév. & Vaniot
- Salix babylonica var. glandulipilosa P.I.Mao & W.Z.Li
- Salix cantoniensis Hance
- Salix capitata Y.L.Chou & Skvortsov
- Salix chinensis Burm.f.
- Salix dependens Nakai
- Salix jeholensis Nakai
- Salix jishiensis C.F.Fang & J.Q.Wang
- Salix lasiogyne Seemen
- Salix lenta Fr.
- Salix matsudana Koidz.
- Salix matsudana var. anshanensis C.Wang & J.Z.Yan
- Salix matsudana var. pseudomatsudana (Y.L.Chou & Skvortsov) Y.L.Chou
- Salix napoleonis F.W.Schultz
- Salix neolasiogyne Nakai
- Salix ohsidare Kimura
- Salix pingliensis Y.L.Chou
- Salix pseudogilgiana H.Lév.
- Salix pseudolasiogyne H.Lév.
- Salix pseudomatsudana Y.L.Chou & Skvortsov
- Salix subfragilis Andersson
- Salix yuhkii Kimura
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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.[3][4]