Salix babylonica grown weeping willow cultivar is "Salix × sepulcralis" 'Chrysocoma', with bright yellowish branchlets. Peking willow is a popular ornamental tree in northern China, and is also grown for wood production and shelterbelts there, being particularly important around the oases of the Gobi Desert, protecting agricultural land from desert winds. The epithet "babylonica" in this Chinese species' scientific name "(S. babylonica)," as well as the related common names "Babylon willow" or "Babylon weeping willow", derive from a misunderstanding by Linnaeus that this willow was the tree described in the "Bible" in the opening of Psalm 137 (here in Latin and English
Salix myrtilloides new leaves appear. The leaves resemble bilberry ("Vaccinium uliginosum") leaves in shape, hence the name in the Finnish and Swedish languages, which translates as "bog bilberry willow". A very similar, closely related species, "Salix pedicellaris" (bog willow), occurs in northern North America; it is classified as a variety of swamp willow "S. myrtilloides" var. "pedicellaris" by some botanists. Salix myrtilloides Salix myrtilloides, the swamp willow, is a willow native to boglands in cool temperate to subarctic regions of northeastern Europe and northern Asia from central Norway and Poland eastwards to the Pacific Ocean coasts, with isolated populations further south in