Salicaceae
Willow Family
The Salicaceae family (Willow Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Malpighiales. In the SASYA catalogue it spans 2 species. Its members are predominantly trees. Familiar examples include weeping willow and Indian Willow.
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Simple, often narrow, finely toothed leaves on trees and shrubs with flexible, easily rooted stems; tiny, petal-less, wind- or insect-pollinated flowers cluster along a soft, often fuzzy catkin on separate male and female trees.
Willow bark contains salicin, the natural precursor compound from which aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) was chemically derived.
Which Salicaceae species is this?
Answer what you can see and narrow it down to a single Salicaceae species.
To check whether a plant belongs to Salicaceae, compare the leaf arrangement, leaf type, flower symmetry, fruit type, and one distinctive marker together. A single feature can mislead; the family pattern is the combination.
Learn the full family-identification methodTypical leaf characters
Characters typical of the family — individual species can vary.
Notable members
Families that can look similar
Euphorbiaceae
Compare against Euphorbiaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare EuphorbiaceaeFlacourtiaceae
Compare against Flacourtiaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare FlacourtiaceaePhyllanthaceae
Compare against Phyllanthaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare PhyllanthaceaeClusiaceae
Compare against Clusiaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare ClusiaceaeAll 2 species in SALICACEAE
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