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 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