This is *Salix babylonica *L. (also known as Weeping willow). Its flexible and weeping nature of branches and short, green, curved catkins those appear with the leaves are important characters for confirmation of its identity. This is most commonly planted species of Salix in India.
Thanks, Sukla ------------------------------------------------ Sukla Chanda, PhD Science & Education, The Field Museum, Chicago IL. On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 6:16 AM, JM Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > > Some earlier relevant feedback: > On the basis of upper picture I would call it a Salix sp. Lower picture > is confusing, but they could be witches brooms, common on Salix. Beli, > bhail are local names in Punjab and Himachal for S. daphnoides. > > Gurcharan Singh > > > > On Monday, July 6, 2009 9:32:46 PM UTC+5:30, satish phadke wrote: >> >> Again a big tree in Manali.(Late Jun 09) Observed very commonly in almost >> all hotels. >> When asked about the name, nobody was knowing it and everybody called it >> as wild and were interested in showing Apple and cherry trees. Ultimately >> one local guy told the local name as BAILEY or BELLY. >> Some dull greenish inflorescence was also observed on the trees. >> Does anybody know the tree? >> Dr Satish Phadke >> >> -- >> >> http:// satishphadke.blogspot.com >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
