Salix babylonica L.
(Weeping Willow)

Interactions where Salix babylonica is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

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Affected Part		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season	Summary
branch (dead)		dead branch is decayed by rather densely gregarious, subepidermal, emergent pycnidium of Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph			Phomopsis salicina	a coelomycete	Diaporthales: Diaporthaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia, Grove, W.B., 1935	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Diaporthales/Diaporthaceae/Phomopsis salicina/	Phomopsis salicina	a coelomycete		rather densely gregarious, subepidermal, emergent	pycnidium	Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / saprobe		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix babylonica/	Salix babylonica	weeping willow		dead	branch				(10-5)	rather densely gregarious, subepidermal, emergent pycnidium of Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph is saprobic on dead branch
leaf		leaf is foodplant of adult			Cryptocephalus coryli	Hazel Pot Beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Cryptocephalus coryli/	Cryptocephalus coryli	hazel pot beetle				adult	Foodplant / feeds on			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix babylonica/	Salix babylonica	weeping willow			leaf			Indoors, in greenhouse, captivity, culture or experimentally induced	(early 4-)5-6(-12)	adult feeds on leaf
leaf (dead)		dead leaf is decayed by pseudothecium			Venturia saliciperda	Willow Scab - causative organism	Venturiales: Venturiaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Venturia saliciperda/	Venturia saliciperda	willow scab (causative organism)				pseudothecium	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix babylonica/	Salix babylonica	weeping willow		dead	leaf				(4-5)	pseudothecium is saprobic on dead leaf
leaf (fallen)		fallen leaf is grazed by mobile cased larva			Cryptocephalus coryli	Hazel Pot Beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Cryptocephalus coryli/	Cryptocephalus coryli	hazel pot beetle				larva	Foodplant / mobile cased feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix babylonica/	Salix babylonica	weeping willow		fallen	leaf			Indoors, in greenhouse, captivity, culture or experimentally induced		larva grazes in mobile case on fallen leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf has sap sucked by colony			Chaitophorus niger	a hairy aphid	Hemiptera: Aphididae	Homoptera - Aphidoidea (Part): Chaitophoridae & Callaphididae, Stroyan, H.L.G., 1977	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Aphididae/Chaitophorus niger/	Chaitophorus niger	a hairy aphid				colony	Foodplant / sap sucker			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix babylonica/	Salix babylonica	weeping willow		live	leaf					colony sucks sap of live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf has sap sucked by colony			Chaitophorus truncatus	a hairy aphid	Hemiptera: Aphididae	Homoptera - Aphidoidea (Part): Chaitophoridae & Callaphididae, Stroyan, H.L.G., 1977	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Aphididae/Chaitophorus truncatus/	Chaitophorus truncatus	a hairy aphid				colony	Foodplant / sap sucker			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix babylonica/	Salix babylonica	weeping willow		live	leaf					colony sucks sap of live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is spotted by Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph			Venturia saliciperda	Willow Scab - causative organism	Venturiales: Venturiaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Venturia saliciperda/	Venturia saliciperda	willow scab (causative organism)				Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix babylonica/	Salix babylonica	weeping willow		live	leaf				(summer)	Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live leaf
shoot (live)		live shoot is spotted by Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph			Venturia saliciperda	Willow Scab - causative organism	Venturiales: Venturiaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Venturia saliciperda/	Venturia saliciperda	willow scab (causative organism)				Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix babylonica/	Salix babylonica	weeping willow		live	shoot				(summer)	Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live shoot
twig		twig is foodplant of scattered, black, subepidermal, covered pycnidium of Diplodina coelomycetous anamorph			Diplodina salicis	a coelomycete	Diaporthales: Gnomoniaceae	British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia, Grove, W.B., 1935	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Diaporthales/Gnomoniaceae/Diplodina salicis/	Diplodina salicis	a coelomycete		scattered, black, subepidermal, covered	pycnidium	Diplodina coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / feeds on		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix babylonica/	Salix babylonica	weeping willow			twig				(12-4)	scattered, black, subepidermal, covered pycnidium of Diplodina coelomycetous anamorph feeds on twig
twig		twig is decayed by scattered, radially plurilocular or subplurilocular stroma of Cytospora coelomycetous anamorph			Cytospora translucens	a stromatic coelomycete	Diaporthales: Valsaceae	British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia, Grove, W.B., 1935	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Diaporthales/Valsaceae/Cytospora translucens/	Cytospora translucens	a stromatic coelomycete		scattered, radially plurilocular or subplurilocular	stroma	Cytospora coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / saprobe		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix babylonica/	Salix babylonica	weeping willow			twig				(Spring)	scattered, radially plurilocular or subplurilocular stroma of Cytospora coelomycetous anamorph is saprobic on twig
twig (dead)		dead twig is decayed by rather densely gregarious, subepidermal, emergent pycnidium of Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph			Phomopsis salicina	a coelomycete	Diaporthales: Diaporthaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia, Grove, W.B., 1935	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Diaporthales/Diaporthaceae/Phomopsis salicina/	Phomopsis salicina	a coelomycete		rather densely gregarious, subepidermal, emergent	pycnidium	Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / saprobe		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix babylonica/	Salix babylonica	weeping willow		dead	twig				(10-5)	rather densely gregarious, subepidermal, emergent pycnidium of Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph is saprobic on dead twig
twig (dead)		dead twig is decayed by immersed, with separately erumpent ostioles perithecium			Plagiostoma salicellum	a valsoid pyrenomycete	Diaporthales: Gnomoniaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Diaporthales/Gnomoniaceae/Plagiostoma salicellum/	Plagiostoma salicellum	a valsoid pyrenomycete		immersed, with separately erumpent ostioles		perithecium	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix babylonica/	Salix babylonica	weeping willow		dead	twig				(3-6)	immersed, with separately erumpent ostioles perithecium is saprobic on dead twig
twig (dead)		dead twig is decayed by Diplodina coelomycetous anamorph			Plagiostoma salicellum	a valsoid pyrenomycete	Diaporthales: Gnomoniaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Diaporthales/Gnomoniaceae/Plagiostoma salicellum/	Plagiostoma salicellum	a valsoid pyrenomycete				Diplodina coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix babylonica/	Salix babylonica	weeping willow		dead	twig				(1-2)	Diplodina coelomycetous anamorph is saprobic on dead twig
wood (dead)		dead wood is decayed by fruitbody			Trametes ochracea	Ochre Bracket	Polyporales: Polyporaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Polyporales/Polyporaceae/Trametes ochracea/	Trametes ochracea	ochre bracket				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix babylonica/	Salix babylonica	weeping willow		dead	wood					fruitbody is saprobic on dead wood

Author & Year	Title	Source
Cox, M.L., 2007	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland	336pp, Pisces Publications
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Grove, W.B., 1935	British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia	Vol I, 488pp, Cambridge University Press
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota	517pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Stroyan, H.L.G., 1977	Homoptera - Aphidoidea (Part): Chaitophoridae & Callaphididae	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 2, Part 4(a), 130pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

Salix babylonica (Weeping Willow) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Salix
(willows)

EU-DICOTS
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Broadleaved shrubs
(broadleaved shrubs)

Trees with bark of middle pH
(neutral-barked species, mesic-barked species)

Trees
(broadleaved and coniferous trees)

Broadleaved trees and shrubs
(broadleaved trees and shrubs)

Trees and shrubs
(trees and shrubs, including conifers)

Trees, shrubs, woody and climbing plants
(trees, shrubs, subshrubs and climbers, including conifers)

Xylophytes
(broadleaved trees, shrubs and woody climbers)

Broadleaved trees
(broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees)

Ectomycorrhizal broadleaved trees and shrubs
(ectomycorrhizal or ectotrophic mycorrhizal broadleaved trees and shrubs)

Ectomycorrhizal trees and shrubs
(ectomycorrhizal or ectotrophic mycorrhizal trees and shrubs)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Salix babylonica (Weeping Willow)
Genus	Salix (willows)
Family	SALICACEAE (poplars and willows)
Order	MALPIGHIALES (poplars, willows, St John’s worts, spurges and violets)
Subclass	EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Class	MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
Phylum	TRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
Kingdom	PLANTAE (plants)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Salix babylonica (Weeping Willow)

Salix babylonica (Weeping Willow) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Salix
(willows)

SALICACEAE
(poplars and willows)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Trees
(broadleaved and coniferous trees)

Trees and shrubs
(trees and shrubs, including conifers)

Trees, shrubs, woody and climbing plants
(trees, shrubs, subshrubs and climbers, including conifers)

Xylophytes
(broadleaved trees, shrubs and woody climbers)

Broadleaved trees
(broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees)

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Salix babylonica (Weeping Willow):

Salix
(willows)

SALICACEAE
(poplars and willows)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Trees
(broadleaved and coniferous trees)

Broadleaved trees and shrubs
(broadleaved trees and shrubs)

Trees and shrubs
(trees and shrubs, including conifers)

Trees, shrubs, woody and climbing plants
(trees, shrubs, subshrubs and climbers, including conifers)

Xylophytes
(broadleaved trees, shrubs and woody climbers)

Broadleaved trees
(broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees)

Ectomycorrhizal broadleaved trees and shrubs
(ectomycorrhizal or ectotrophic mycorrhizal broadleaved trees and shrubs)

Ectomycorrhizal trees and shrubs
(ectomycorrhizal or ectotrophic mycorrhizal trees and shrubs)

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