One willow, many possibilities
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In Flora-On, Salix is a genus containing several species. Listed names include Salix atrocinerea, Salix salviifolia and Salix viminalis. A reference simply to “willows” therefore cannot select one of these species. Keep this distinction when reading the description of woods in the Tâmega basin: the regional source mentions the group without identifying each tree here.
Scientific names also have different levels. In Flora-On’s list, Salix salviifolia appears with the subspecies salviifolia and australis. Salix names the genus; Salix salviifolia names the species; subsp. adds the subspecies level. When comparing an old source, a photograph and a botanical profile, retain the name each actually provides rather than completing an identification that was never made.
A name, a plant, a landscape
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Willows in the regional picture of the margins
The river also has a forest →A ashtray with local photography
A fruit with wing →The fibers in the memory of the baskets
Baskets that keep knowledge →
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Sociedade Portuguesa de Botânica — Flora-On, genus Salix
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Editorial summary; the date of consultation is not the date of the facts.