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Salix babylonica L. (Weeping Willow)

Suggested Literature

Salix babylonica may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
SALICACEAE
(poplars and willows)
Salix
(willows)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Salix babylonica:

leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by pseudothecium Venturia saliciperda - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Venturiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (fallen) fallen leaf is grazed by mobile cased larva Cryptocephalus coryli - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Captivity Cox, M.L., 2007
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph Venturia saliciperda - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Venturiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf leaf is foodplant of adult Cryptocephalus coryli - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Captivity Cox, M.L., 2007
shoot (live) live shoot is spotted by Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph Venturia saliciperda - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Venturiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
twig (dead) dead twig is decayed by immersed, with separately erumpent ostioles perithecium Cryptodiaporthe salicella - a valsoid pyrenomycete (Diaporthales: Valsaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
twig (dead) dead twig is decayed by Diplodina coelomycetous anamorph Cryptodiaporthe salicella - a valsoid pyrenomycete (Diaporthales: Valsaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
twig (dead) dead twig is decayed by conidioma of Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph Phomopsis salicina - a coelomycete (Diaporthales: Valsaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos wood (dead) dead wood is decayed by fruitbody Trametes ochracea - a bracket fungus (Polyporales: Polyporaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Salix babylonica may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Salix
(willows)

References

Cox, M.L., 2007 Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota

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