Salix aegyptiaca (Introduced)

Kalatope id al120311: 11 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (2).
Found a tree growing in some fields…

Location: Kalatope, Chamba, HP
Altitude: 2100 mt
Habitat: fields ?
habit: tree
height: 3-4 mts
Season: flowering now

– The correct name for Indian Salix caprea is now S. aegyptiaca L., (syn: Salix caprea Hook.f. (non L.))
Local name Bred Mushk

– Funny, it is the only willow tree I’ve seen around here.. must have been planted by someone…

– The earliest species of Salix to flower in Himalayas. The catkins are very dense and fragrant.

– The female of this species…. presenting… ‘Lady’ Salix aegyptica with her flower/fruit..??

Yes, this is Salix aegyptiaca L.

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Where can I find Salix Aegyptiaca and/or its essential oil? Salix aegyptiaca is also known salix caprea, bedmushk, bidmeshk : 1 post by 1 author.
I am desperately looking for “Salix Aegyptiaca“. The essential oil extract from this plant forms a very important ingredient of a medicine which has shown some promise in a rare disorder called “MSA” or Multiple System Atrophy.
My mother is suffering from this devastating disease. And the only Unani medicine that has shown some promise is something we are trying to make. All other ingredient / herbal extracts we have managed to find apart from “Salix Aegyptiaca” essential oil.
I need half to one kg of either the flowers (“male catkins”) or bark or branches of this tree.
I will be forever be grateful for any help extended to find this medicinal plant for my mother.
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Very common in Kashmir. One of the earliest plants to flower in Kashmir in February March when thick fragrant spikes appear at tips of branches before leaves. The tree has broad ovate-elliptic leaves for rest of the year. Every gardener in Kashmir would know.

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Salix aegyptiaca: 3 images.
Date of collection: 22 /03/2022
Location: Ganderbal kashmir

Can you post habitat, leaf both sides and trunk / branch images ?

ID is correct !

3 high res. images.

Female plant, male plant was uploaded in earlier post.

Still, I have confusion.. If Earlier S.caprea was identified as S. aegyptiaca… I have uploaded these photographs also as S. aegyptiaca., please correct the possible id

I will take all your posts of both as S. aegyptiaca

Your one plant was with male Catkins, another with Female spikes, both same species S. aegyptiaca. These confusions can occur in dioiecious plants. Few years earlier I had uploaded Laurus nobilis from California. This year I photographed a tree that I could not relate, but finally came to know that this is male tree same Laurus nobilis, I shared few days back. Both are now on our website.
You can keep track of both trees you shared and confirm when mature leaves appear. Trunk under the bark is striated in S. aegyptiaca, smooth in S. caprea. Moreover S. aegyptiaca can easily be propagated through cuttings, not S. caprea.

Salix caprea: 2 high res. images.
Kashmiri name: Braed mushk
Location: Ganderbal kashmir
Date of collection: 14 March 2021.

It does not have any distribution in India as per POWO 1 and POWO 2 and as per details at Salix.
Pl. check with Salix disperma Roxb. ex D. Don as per images and details herein.

Was it cultivated as stated in the publication?

Introduced sir. Cultivated in kashmir

But you have not mentioned as such in your post. That is why place, date, habit and habitat etc. are important. Pl. mention in future posts, otherwise we are wasting so much of each other’s time.

Salix caprea AT/JUNE2021/1:

June 2021
4 images.

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Image size should be less than 8 MB, upto 7.9 MB.

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I got this message when the mails reverted back to me.

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Taking it as Salix aegyptiaca L.as per discussions at Salix caprea

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Salix caprea: 2 images- 1 high res.
Location: kulgam 
Date of collection: 26-02-2023
Kashmiri name : Braed mushk

In Kashmir the sweet scented flowers of Bred Mushak signify the end of winter.

Yes Salix caprea, Bred Mushak.

To set nomenclature right, the Salix caprea of Indian authors incl FBI is correctly Salix aegyptiaca Linnaeus

You mean to say the images at the following are also of S.aegyptiaca:
Salix caprea (by …)
http://www.flowersofindia.Goat%20Willow.html (by …)
Salix caprea AT/JUNE2021/1 (by Anil ji)

Yes …, we don’t have S. caprea in Kashmir.

https://www.researchgate.A_short_chemical_review _on_Salix_Caprea_commonly_Known_as_Goat_willow
https://www.flowersofindia.Persian%20Willow.html
https://www.flowersofindia.Persian%20Willow.html
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Yes, also needs to be corrected in FOI.

Salix caprea is Introduced species of kashmir…. And yes it has distribution In kashmir…
I think salix caprea is different from S.aegyptiaca

Yes

I do not know much taxonomy but it is written in Wikipedia that unlike all other willows pure S.caprea can not be grown from cuttings. According to Wikipedia :
“Unlike almost all other willows, pure specimens do not take root readily from cuttings; if a willow resembling the species does root easily, it is probably a hybrid with another species of willow.“ Since Bred Mushk in Kashmir is propagated from cuttings (I did it once myself) it must either be another species or a hybrid.

Please note that for more than 100 years the Kashmir Bredmushk was known as S. caprea L. It was only Stewart in 1972 who ponted out that plant known as S. caprea by Flora of British India as also Forest Flora of Punjab 1956 was actually S. aegyptiaca L. Flora of Pakistan which usually lists all plants from Kashmir does not list S. caprea.

… needs to correct it in FOI also.

Thank you … Corrected at FOI now.

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