Origin: Central Asia - China
Family: Salicaceae
English name: Weeping willow
French name: Saule Pleureur
Italian name: Salice piangente
Spanish name: Sauce Llorón
Description
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Carl Linnaeus named this tree in the mistaken belief that it was the biblical willow of Babylon. This tree actually reached Europe in early 1700s, by travelling westward along the Silk Road trade route from China through central and western Asia. |
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