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babylon's Usage Examples:

babylonica, with its typical weeping branches.

jpg|Pendulous branchlets of Salix babylonica Taxonomy Salix babylonica was described and named scientifically by Carolus Linnaeus in 1736, who knew the species as the pendulous-branched (weeping) variant then recently introduced into the Clifford garden in Hartekamp in The Netherlands.

Horticultural selections and related hybrids Early Chinese cultivar selections include the original weeping willow, Salix babylonica 'Pendula', in which the branches and twigs are strongly pendulous, which was presumably spread along ancient trade routes.

babylonica, it is much hardier and more long-lived than the Babylon Willow (Salix babylonica).

babylonica) and almond willow (S.

babylonica itself:Salix × pendulina, a hybrid with S.

babylonica accepted as the female parent, but with the male parent unidentified, probably being either S.

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babylonica has only one; however, this character is variable in many willows (for example, crack willow, Salix fragilis, can have either one or two), so even this difference may not be taxonomically significant.

Relation to Salix matsudanaA similar willow species also native to northern China, Salix matsudana (Chinese willow), is now included in Salix babylonica as a synonym by many botanists, including the Russian willow expert Alexey Skvortsov.

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, but cultivated.

Synonyms:

Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Babel, Tower of Babel, Mesopotamia,