A plant family of the order MALPIGHIALES, superorder ROSANAE, class MAGNOLIOPSIDA. The leaves are alternate and simple, and staminate (male) flowers consist of one to several stamens; pistillate (female) flowers consist of a single-chambered ovary with several ovules that produce silky seeds.
    

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Four plant stems with catkins, all from named types of willow (Salix species). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.

Salicaceae

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De cortice salicis cortici peruviano substituendo : disputatio posterior ... / defendet Justus Gulielmus Günz.

Four plant stems with catkins, all from types of willow (Salix species). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.

A lakeside village scene with lombardy poplar trees (Populus nigra cv. Italica) growing by the water's edge. Lithograph after G. Barnard, 1848.

Four plant stems with catkins, all from named types of willow (Salix species). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.

Basket willow (Salix viminalis): flowering stem. Watercolour, 1903.