Salix babylonica but beyond China, it has not generally been as successfully cultivated as some of its hybrid derivatives, being sensitive to late-spring frosts. In the more humid climates of much of Europe and eastern North America, it is susceptible to a canker disease, willow anthracnose ("Marssonina salicicola"), which makes infected trees very short-lived and unsightly. "Salix babylonica" (Babylon willow) has many cultivars, including: Various cultivars of "Salix matsudana" (Chinese willow) are now often included within "Salix babylonica", treated more broadly, including: Yet other weeping willow cultivars are derived from interspecific "Salix" hybrids, including "S. babylonica" in their parentage. The most widely
Salix pedicellata cylindrical, about 1.25 mm long and 0.5 mm wide. "Salix pedicellata" was first described by René Desfontaines in 1799. "Salix canariensis" is treated by some taxonomists as a subspecies of "S. pedicellata", under the name "S. pedicellata" subsp. "canariensis", so that the species "S. pedicellata" becomes "S. pedicellata" subsp. "pedicellata". It hybridizes with "Salix atrocinerea". "Salix pedicellata" is native to some of the countries around the Mediterranean, in Europe (Portugal, Spain, mainland Italy, Sicily, mainland Greece and Crete), western North Africa (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) and Western Asia (the East Aegean Islands, Turkey and Lebanon-Syria). It has been introduced to