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
Caloptilia stigmatella Caloptilia stigmatella Caloptilia stigmatella is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from the Holarctic Region, including all of Europe (except the Balkan Peninsula). The wingspan is . Adults are on wing in late June and July, and again from September onwards. The larvae feed on "Myrica gale", "Populus alba", "Populus candicans", "Populus canescens", "Populus nigra", "Populus tremula", "Salix alba", "Salix aurita", "Salix babylonica", "Salix cinerea", "Salix dasyclados", "Salix elaeagnos", "Salix fragilis", "Salix glaucosericea", "Salix lanata", "Salix magnifica", "Salix myrsinifolia", "Salix pentandra", "Salix purpurea", "Salix repens", "Salix sitchensis", "Salix spadicea", "Salix x stipularis", "Salix triandra", "Salix udensis" and