Willow

About 350, including:
''Salix acutifolia'' - Violet Willow
''Salix alaxensis'' - Alaska Willow
''Salix alba'' - White Willow
''Salix alpina'' - Alpine Willow
''Salix amygdaloides'' - Peachleaf Willow
''Salix arbuscula'' - Mountain Willow
''Salix arbusculoides'' - Littletree Willow
''Salix arctica'' - Arctic Willow
''Salix atrocinerea''
''Salix aurita'' - Eared Willow
''Salix babylonica'' - Peking Willow
''Salix barrattiana'' - Barratt's Willow
''Salix bebbiana'' - Beaked Willow
''Salix boothii'' - Booth Willow
''Salix bouffordii''
''Salix brachycarpa'' - Barren-ground Willow
''Salix cacuminis''
''Salix candida'' - Sage Willow
''Salix caprea'' - Goat Willow
''Salix caroliniana'' - Coastal Plain Willow
''Salix chilensis''
''Salix cinerea'' - Grey Sallow
''Salix cordata''
''Salix daphnoides''
''Salix discolor'' - Pussy Willow
''Salix fragilis'' - Crack Willow
''Salix eastwoodiae'' - Eastwood's Willow
''Salix eleagnos''
''Salix eriocephala'' - Diamond Willow
''Salix exigua'' - Sandbar Willow
''Salix foetida''
''Salix geyeriana''
''Salix glauca''
''Salix hainanica'' - Hainan Willow
''Salix helvetica'' - Swiss Willow
''Salix herbacea'' - Dwarf Willow
''Salix humboldtiana'' - Chile Willow
''Salix humilis'' - Upland Willow
''Salix interior''
''Salix kusanoi''
''Salix lanata'' - Woolly Willow
''Salix lapponum'' - Downy Willow
''Salix lasiandra'' - Pacific Willow
''Salix lasiolepsis'' - Arroyo Willow
''Salix lucida'' - Shining Willow
''Salix matsudana'' - Chinese Willow
''Salix mucronata''
''Salix myrsinifolia'' - Dark-leaved Willow
''Salix myrsinites'' - Whortle-leaved Willow
''Salix nigra'' - Black Willow
''Salix pedicellaris'' - Bog Willow
''Salix pentandra'' - Bay Willow
''Salix petiolaris'' - Slender Willow
''Salix phylicifolia'' - Tea-leaved Willow
''Salix planifolia''
''Salix polaris'' - Polar Willow
''Salix pseudo-argentea''
''Salix purpurea'' - Purple Willow
''Salix pyrifolia'' - Balsam Willow
''Salix repens'' - Creeping Willow
''Salix reticulata'' - Net-leaved Willow
''Salix retusa''
''Salix rosmarinifolia'' - Rosemary-leaved Willow
''Salix salicicola''
''Salix scouleriana'' - Scouler's Willow
''Salix sericea'' - Silky Willow
''Salix serissima'' - Autumn Willow
''Salix sitchensis''
''Salix tetrasperma''
''Salix thorelii''
''Salix triandra'' - Almond Willow
''Salix viminalis'' - Common Osier
''Salix waldsteiniana'' The willows are deciduous trees and shrubs in the genus ''Salix'', part of the willow family Salicaceae. There are about 350 species in this genus worldwide, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the Northern Hemisphere. The leaf are deciduous, often elongate but round to oval in a few species, and with a serrated margin. Willows are plant sexuality with male and female flowers appearing as catkins on different plants; the catkins are produced early in the spring, often before the leaves or as the new leaves open. The fruit is a small capsule containing numerous tiny (0.1 mm) seeds embedded in white down, which assists wind dispersal of the seeds. Willows are very cross-fertile and numerous hybrids are known, both naturally occurring and in cultivation. Some smaller species may also be known by the common names ''osier'' and ''sallow''; the latter name is derived from the same root as the Latin ''salix''. The White Willow (''Salix alba'') is a widespread European species, which has become naturalised on many other parts of the world; it is a tree up to 30 m tall. A cultivar of it, 'Caerulea', selected for fast, straight growth, is grown in southern England, the wood being used for the manufacture of cricket bats. The Weeping Willow, very widely planted as an ornamental plant, is also a cultivar, ''Salix'' 'Tristis', derived from a hybrid between the China ''S. babylonica'' and ''S. alba''. Some willows, particularly arctic and alpine species, are very small; the Dwarf Willow (''Salix herbacea'') rarely exceeds 6 cm in height, though spreading widely across the ground. Almost all willows take root very readily from cuttings or where broken branches lie on the ground, though there are a few exceptions, including the Goat Willow and Peachleaf Willow. Willows are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Brimstone Moth, Poplar Hawk-moth, Autumnal Rustic and Small Square-spot. == Medicinal properties == The bark of the willow tree has been mentioned in ancient texts from Assyria, Sumeria and Ancient Egypt as a remedy for aches and fever, and the Greece physician Hippocrates wrote about its medicinal properties in the 5th century BC. Native Americans across the American continent relied on it as a staple of their medical treatments. The active extract of the bark, called salicin, was isolated to its crystalline form in 1828 by Henri Leroux, a French pharmacist, and Raffaele Piria, an Italian chemist, who then succeeded in separating out the acid in its pure state. Salicin is acidic when in a saturated solution in water (''p''H = 2.4), and is called salicylic acid for that reason. In 1897 Felix Hoffmann created a synthetically altered version of salicin (in his case derived from the ''Spiraea'' plant), which caused less digestive upset than pure salicylic acid. The new drug, formally ''Acetylsalicylic acid'', was named aspirin by Hoffmann's employer Bayer AG. This gave rise to the hugely important class of drugs known as NSAIDs (NSAIDs). ==Uses== *Cricket bat *Cradle board *Chair & furniture *Pole (object), Turnery, Tool handles *Fish trap *Doll, Toy, Whistle *Charcoal *Paper *Flute *Box, Veneer *Wand, Broom *Rope *Basket weaving *Wattle fence *Wattle and daub *Streambank stabilisation (bioengineering) *Slope stabilisation *Soil erosion control *Soil building *Land reclamation *Ecological wastewater treatment system *Constructed wetland *Biofiltration *Phytoremediation *Shelterbelt & Windbreak *Agroforestry *Wildlife habitat *Living Willow Sculpture *Landscaping *Biomass energy (bioenergy) == External links == ;''Salix alba'' *[http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/thome/band2/tafel_010.html ''Salix alba'' image from 'Flora von Deutschland �sterreich und der Schweiz'] *[http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/cgi-bin/pfaf/arr_html?Salix+alba Salix alba at plants for a future] ;''Salix purpurea'' *[http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/thome/band2/tafel_012.html Image of ''Salix purpurea'' from 'Flora von Deutschland �sterreich und der Schweiz'] *[http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/cgi-bin/pfaf/arr_html?Salix+purpurea ''Salix purpurea'' at plants for a future] Image:Willow (salix).JPG|Weeping Willow Image:Salixviminalis1web.jpg|Common Osier (Salix viminalis) leaves Image:Willow catkin 1 aka.jpg|Willow catkin Image:Willow catkin 2 aka.jpg|Willow catkin Salicaceae Trees Herbal & fungal drugs/medicines

Willow

I didn't categorize under Trees because as the first line says, not all species of willows are trees. User:Stan Shebs 23:39, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC) Seems that two photos of the same species of willow is unecessary--how about a photo of a dwarf willow, to show the range of growth habit? I'm not too familiar yet with working with photos, or I would do this myself. User:Deirdre 20:54, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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