What is the difference between willow and willow? Rarely did anyone think about this issue, since it seemed to everyone that these were just two names of the same plant. However, you should know more about this than you know.
Willow family
Each is beautiful in its own way and willow and willow are somewhat similar. There is still a difference between them.
Willow is a deciduous plant (shrub or tree). Its species differ from each other mainly in appearance. In general, there are about 600 species of plants of this genus in the world.
The whole family of willow trees in Russia has more than 120 species: black-throated,
weeping willow, rakita, white-throated, molokite, sail, sheluga, goat willow and many others.
This plant has an unimaginable desire for life: any process, twig or stump stuck in the ground, quickly covered with numerous young shoots.
And how to distinguish willow from willow? Speaking about these two plants, many believe that we are talking about one plant, but this is not so. They belong to the same genus (family) - willow. They have differences.
Some species of plants from the willow genus are called willow. For example: Holly willow, goat willow, wolf willow, etc.
Signs related to willow. What do people believe in?
People have pinned many hopes and are associated with willow:
- Against the wind, an abandoned branch will help calm the storm, and an abandoned branch will calm the fire.
- Willow branches attached to the gate will drive away all evil spirits.
“With a willow branch, you can even find a treasure.”
- Earlier, cattle was driven out with willow on the very first pasture .
Ancient and other beliefs
- The ancient Slavs called the willow perunova vine.
- Children used to be bathed for health in a decoction of willow twigs.
- A real ancient Slavic rite is a wedding around a rakita.
- Lithuanian peasant women prayed for willow in the old days, so that it would help them - gave a child.
- Also in antiquity it was believed that willow helps in eloquence. In this regard, it was called the tree of poets and singers.
- In China, willow is a symbol of spring and female beauty, suppleness and softness.
- And Jews in ancient times called willow a symbol of misfortune, sadness, sadness, death, burial (namely, weeping willow).
- In Japan, this plant also carries sadness and weakness. However, it carries tenderness, grace, calmness, and constancy.
Willow (krasnotal) - Palm Sunday tree. This is a Christian spring festival dedicated to the entry of Christ into Jerusalem. The Jews greeted him with sculptures - branches of the Jerusalem willow - or the branches of a date palm.
What is the difference between willow and willow?
In the spring, when buds just appear on the trees, there is not a single leaf, the willow first responds to the spring rays of the sun. She pleases everyone with her tender, surprisingly soft and fluffy white kidneys. And the willow begins to blossom with the rest of the plants. And unlike willow, she has small yellowish-green buds.
They differ in the color of their bark. The willow has a reddish-brown, and the willow has a grayish-green.
How to distinguish willow from willow in other ways? In willow, thin and flexible branches are covered with elongated sharp leaves. And the willow stiff and thick branches have wide and semicircular leaves.
Their habitats are also excellent. Willow can grow almost everywhere, and willow - mainly near lakes, rivers, swamps, ditches, i.e. where there is water.
Types and varieties of willow
We continue to talk about how to distinguish willow from willow. Willows have an open, transparent crown, with flexible, thin and delicate branches, on which narrow, pointed, elongated leaves bloom. For the most part, these plants are up to 15 m high, but can be higher - up to 40 m. There are dwarf, small willows.
Some varieties of willows:
1. Willow is brittle - a tree up to 15 meters high and 8 meters wide. Sometimes it has a slightly curved shape and even with two trunks. It grows in territories from Europe to Asia.
2. Goat willow - a fairly large shrub or sapling up to 12 m high and up to 6 m wide with a short trunk and a round crown. It grows mainly in Central Asia and in Europe.
3. Purple willow - a large 10-meter tree. It grows in nature in Central Asia and in central Europe.
4. The willow is creeping. The inflorescences of this lovely willow have pink, silver and fluffy (woolly) scales. It can be grown in the garden, and in the container or in the container - on the balcony.
5. White willow - a large tree up to 25 meters high and up to 15 meters wide. It is found throughout Europe. This plant has not only an unusually beautiful crown, but also the original color of shoots: brown-red in summer, bright yellow in spring.
6. Babylonian willow - a wonderful tree of weeping form. One of the most beautiful decorations of gardens and parks in the south of Russia. This willow hails from North and Central China. Height - no more than 15 meters, width - 9 meters.
Holly willow - willow
This willow, like several other species of willow (named above), is called willow. Holly willow - a bush or tree up to 8 meters high with an oval crown. Willow shoots are tender and flexible, purplish-reddish in color with a pleasant bluish bloom.
Its leaves are linear-lanceolate, longish and pointed. They are brilliant, green at the top, bluish at the bottom.
This type of plant is one of the most unpretentious to any growing conditions. Propagated by cuttings and even twigs.
The answer to the question of how to distinguish willow from willow is given. But this plant not only looks great in nature, but also useful.
From willow branches it is convenient to weave wonderful baskets, furniture, mats, various decorations to decorate the design of the house and garden. Willows used to make hoops for barrels and those very magnificent arcs for horses, on which silver bells rang beautifully ...