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  • 1. What genus do willows belong to?
A) Populus
B) Salix
C) Quercus
D) Pinus
  • 2. Approximately how many species make up the genus Salix?
A) 50
B) 500
C) 150
D) 350
  • 3. How many willow hybrids have been named due to free hybridisation?
A) Over 350
B) Over 160
C) Exactly 100
D) Under 50
  • 4. What is a key ecological trait of willows regarding sunlight?
A) Deep shade intolerant
B) Full sun obligate
C) Darkness dependent
D) Shade tolerant
  • 5. What type of life span do willows typically have?
A) Centuries-old
B) Extremely long-lived
C) Short-lived
D) Perennial evergreen
  • 6. What do willows require to outcompete conifers or large deciduous species?
A) Heavy fertilizer
B) Drought conditions
C) Complete isolation
D) Disturbances
  • 7. How are willow seeds carried?
A) By heavy mammals
B) By birds only
C) Underground by ants
D) By wind and water
  • 8. What are willow seeds like in size?
A) Medium-sized
B) Heavy
C) Large
D) Tiny
  • 9. For how long are willow seeds viable?
A) Decades
B) Several months
C) Up to a year
D) Only for a few days
  • 10. What conditions do willow seeds require to take root?
A) Cold and dry conditions
B) Warm and moist conditions
C) Freezing temperatures
D) Arid desert soil
  • 11. How can willows reproduce vegetatively?
A) Exclusively through leaf dropping
B) From fallen flower petals
C) From decapitated stumps and branches
D) Only from underground roots
  • 12. What do bees make from the nectar produced by willows?
A) Royal jelly
B) Propolis
C) Honey
D) Wax
  • 13. Why are willows especially valued by bees?
A) Because of their sweet bark
B) As a source of early pollen
C) For their winter shelter
D) For high nectar volume
  • 14. Which animal uses willows to build dams?
A) Otters
B) Beavers
C) Muskrats
D) Badgers
  • 15. The larvae of which butterfly use willows as food?
A) Mourning cloak butterfly
B) Painted lady butterfly
C) Monarch butterfly
D) Swallowtail butterfly
  • 16. Which insects are common on willows inhabited by aphids, coming to collect honeydew?
A) Grasshoppers
B) Ants
C) Beetles
D) Caterpillars
  • 17. Besides ants, which other insect sometimes collects aphid honeydew on willows?
A) Mosquitoes
B) Flies
C) Dragonflies
D) Wasps
  • 18. Willow species are hosts to more than how many aphid species?
A) A hundred
B) A thousand
C) Ten
D) Five
  • 19. Which aphid genus is mentioned as hosting on willows?
A) Myzus
B) Aphis
C) Eriosoma
D) Chaitophorus
  • 20. Where do large aphid colonies typically feed on willow plants?
A) On the upper bark
B) On the flower petals
C) Inside the roots
D) On the underside of leaves
  • 21. What is the common name of Corythucha elegans?
A) Willow gall midge
B) Willow leaf beetle
C) Willow lace bug
D) Willow aphid
  • 22. In which family is the willow lace bug classified?
A) Tingidae
B) Pentatomidae
C) Aphididae
D) Cicadellidae
  • 23. In which region is the willow lace bug found on willows?
A) North America
B) Asia
C) Australia
D) Europe
  • 24. What is Rhabdophaga rosaria?
A) A species of fungal rust
B) A parasitic vine
C) An aphid predator
D) A type of gall found on willows
  • 25. What causes rust that damages willow leaves?
A) Viruses of the Potyviridae family
B) Insects of genus Chaitophorus
C) Bacteria of genus Pseudomonas
D) Fungi of genus Melampsora
  • 26. How does rust typically affect the leaves of willows?
A) Turning them entirely black
B) Creating white powdery mildew
C) Covering them with orange spots
D) Causing them to curl inward
  • 27. What did some Native Americans do to allow new willow stands to form?
A) Allowed wildfires to burn and set fires intentionally
B) Diverted watercourses to flood fields
C) Planted seeds in rows near rivers
D) Removed all competing conifers by hand
  • 28. Why were a small number of willow species widely planted in Australia?
A) As erosion-control measures along watercourses
B) For commercial timber production
C) To feed local livestock
D) To provide shade for parks
  • 29. How are willows now regarded in Australia?
A) As endangered plants
B) As sacred trees
C) As protected native species
D) As invasive weeds
  • 30. In which part of Australia do willows occupy extensive areas?
A) Southern Australia
B) Western Australia
C) Central Australia
D) Northern Australia
  • 31. What official designation do willows hold in Australia?
A) Protected Flora of Australia
B) Endangered Native Trees
C) Agricultural Pests of Concern
D) Weeds of National Significance
  • 32. What are many catchment management authorities in Australia doing with willows?
A) Fertilizing them to boost growth
B) Pruning them for urban landscaping
C) Removing and replacing them with native trees
D) Protecting them with fences
  • 33. Almost all natural population studies of willow sex ratios report evidence of what?
A) An exactly even sex ratio
B) A female-biased secondary sex ratio
C) A complete lack of female plants
D) A male-biased secondary sex ratio
  • 34. In several studies, willow sex ratios were associated with environmental conditions such as:
A) Soil pH or nitrogen levels
B) Pollution or salinity
C) Wind speed or humidity
D) Draught or altitude
  • 35. What does the lack of ecological difference between sexes in some Salix species suggest?
A) Sex is determined entirely by soil moisture
B) Sex bias could be present from the seed stage
C) Environmental conditions have no effect
D) Willows change sex as they mature
  • 36. Almost all willows take root very readily from what?
A) Fallen leaves
B) Cuttings or broken branches
C) Unfertilized blossoms
D) Deep taproots
  • 37. Which willow species is an exception to taking root readily from cuttings or broken branches?
A) Peachleaf willow (Salix amygdaloides)
B) Weeping willow (Salix babylonica)
C) Crack willow (Salix fragilis)
D) White willow (Salix alba)
  • 38. Who begged a twig from a parcel tied with twigs sent from Spain to Lady Suffolk?
A) An Australian catchment manager
B) Lady Suffolk herself
C) A Spanish botanist
D) The poet Alexander Pope
  • 39. According to legend, all of England's weeping willows are descended from a twig sent from where?
A) Japan
B) Spain
C) Italy
D) France
  • 40. How are willows extensively used around the world in cultivation?
A) In hedges and landscaping
B) For indoor houseplants
C) For building large ships
D) As a primary source of paper
  • 41. Which high end shopping district has a long history of cultivating willow?
A) Fifth Avenue in New York
B) Ginza in Tokyo, Japan
C) Champs-Elysees in Paris
D) Oxford Street in London
  • 42. What are the streets of Ginza well known for regarding willows?
A) Having willow-themed cafes
B) Being paved with willow wood
C) Being willow lined
D) Hosting willow festivals
  • 43. What are narrow-leaved shrub species of willow called?
A) Sallow
B) Osier
C) Shrublet
D) Sapling
  • 44. What are broader-leaved species of willow referred to as?
A) Osier
B) Frond
C) Conifer
D) Sallow
  • 45. From which language does the word 'sallow' derive?
A) Old English
B) Ancient Greek
C) Latin
D) Old Norse
  • 46. What is the maximum height the dwarf willow rarely exceeds?
A) 20 centimetres
B) 12 centimetres
C) 6 centimetres
D) 50 centimetres
  • 47. What substance is rich in the watery bark sap of willows?
A) Tannin
B) Resin
C) Lignin
D) Salicin
  • 48. What can easily sprout from aerial parts of the willow plant?
A) Tendrils
B) Thorns
C) Roots
D) Flowers
  • 49. What shape are willow leaves typically?
A) Square-shaped
B) Elongated
C) Perfectly round
D) Star-shaped
  • 50. What type of leaf edges do willow leaves frequently have?
A) Spiny and sharp
B) Smooth and entire
C) Serrated
D) Lobed like an oak
  • 51. Are most willow species deciduous or evergreen?
A) Annual
B) Semi-deciduous
C) Evergreen
D) Deciduous
  • 52. Where are Salix micans and S. australior found?
A) Northern Scandinavia
B) Western North America
C) Southern South America
D) Eastern Mediterranean
  • 53. What covers the willow buds?
A) A single scale
B) A sticky resinous coat
C) Multiple overlapping scales
D) A layer of thick fur
  • 54. How are the veins arranged on willow leaves?
A) Palmate-veined
B) Net-veined without a midrib
C) Feather-veined
D) Parallel-veined
  • 55. What shape are willow leaf petioles?
A) Short
B) Absent or sessile
C) Swollen and bulbous
D) Extremely long
  • 56. What term describes stipules that soon fall off?
A) Persistent
B) Perennial
C) Caducous
D) Deciduous
  • 57. In what season do willows leaf out among the earliest woody plants?
A) Spring
B) Summer
C) Autumn
D) Winter
  • 58. What environmental factor stimulates leafout in willows?
A) Wind velocity
B) Soil salinity
C) Air temperature
D) Moon phases
  • 59. What consecutive daytime high temperature stimulates a willow to put out leaves and flowers?
A) 10 °C (50 °F)
B) 20 °C (68 °F)
C) 30 °C (86 °F)
D) 0 °C (32 °F)
  • 60. In the northern hemisphere, what triggers leaf drop in autumn?
A) Soil freezing
B) Shortening day length
C) Increased rainfall
D) Heavy snowfall
  • 61. What are male and female willow flowers produced as?
A) Catkins
B) Calyces
C) Corollas
D) Racemes
  • 62. What do staminate flowers consist simply of?
A) Ovules
B) Stamens
C) Ovaries
D) Styles
  • 63. What color are anthers in the bud?
A) Pale brown
B) Rose-colored
C) Orange
D) Purple
  • 64. How many cells do anthers have?
A) Three-celled
B) Four-celled
C) Two-celled
D) One-celled
  • 65. How many cells does the ovary have in pistillate flowers?
A) Two-celled
B) Four-celled
C) Three-celled
D) One-celled
  • 66. How many lobes does the style have in pistillate flowers?
A) Three-lobed
B) One-lobed
C) Four-lobed
D) Two-lobed
  • 67. Who originated the scientific use of the genus name Salix in 1753?
A) Carl Linnaeus
B) Modern phylogeneticists
C) The Romans
D) A Celtic tribe
  • 68. What language does the generic name Salix come from?
A) English
B) Celtic
C) Latin
D) Greek
  • 69. In the Celtic language theory, what does 'sal' mean?
A) 'Near'
B) 'Tree'
C) 'Water'
D) 'Spring'
  • 70. In the Celtic language theory, what does 'lis' mean?
A) 'Flower'
B) 'Catkin'
C) 'Water'
D) 'Near'
  • 71. Which country is the Peking willow (Salix babylonica) originally from?
A) Greece
B) China
C) Japan
D) Egypt
  • 72. Which country is the white willow (Salix alba) originally from?
A) Africa
B) Asia
C) America
D) Europe
  • 73. In recent times, Salix has become an important source for what type of production?
A) Bioenergy production
B) Rubber production
C) Silk production
D) Paper pulp production
  • 74. What did Native American tribes use willow shoots to weave?
A) Nets
B) Mats
C) Hats
D) Baskets
  • 75. What did Native American tribes build using willow branches and stems?
A) Fishing weirs
B) Fences
C) Bridges
D) Ladders
  • 76. Which ancient Greek physician wrote about willow properties as a folk medicine in the fifth century BC?
A) Hippocrates
B) Asclepiades
C) Dioscorides
D) Galen
  • 77. In the Sumerian narrative of Gilgameš, Enkidu and the Nether World, what were the seeds of the Haluppu-tree recommended to treat?
A) Headaches
B) Wounds
C) Infertility
D) Fever
  • 78. In the ancient Egyptian Ebers Papyrus, how many remedies mention willow?
A) Three
B) One
C) Ten
D) Five
  • 79. Which Roman author mentioned willow leaves pounded and boiled in vinegar as a treatment for uterine prolapse?
A) Aulus Cornelius Celsus
B) Pliny the Elder
C) Seneca
D) Lucretius
  • 80. In Nicholas Culpeper's book 'The Complete Herbal', what was willow recommended to provoke?
A) Saliva
B) Urine
C) Vomiting
D) Sweat
  • 81. What modern medical treatment does Nicholas Culpeper's remedy of burnt willow bark mixed with vinegar seem to correspond with?
A) Quinine
B) Morphine
C) Salicylic acid
D) Penicillin
  • 82. Who sent a letter to the Royal Society in 1763 describing experiments with powdered white willow bark?
A) Reverend Edward Stone
B) Charles Frédéric Gerhardt
C) Thomas John MacLagan
D) Felix Hoffmann
  • 83. What bark did Edward Stone think white willow bark tasted like?
A) Birch Bark
B) Peruvian Bark
C) Cinnamon Bark
D) Oak Bark
  • 84. What was 'Peruvian Bark' used to treat during Edward Stone's time?
A) Tuberculosis
B) Wounds
C) Rheumatism
D) Fevers
  • 85. Which military forces experimented unsuccessfully with willow as a cure for malaria during the American Civil War?
A) Union forces
B) French forces
C) Confederate forces
D) British forces
  • 86. In Jules Verne's novel 'The Mysterious Island', which character suffered from a fever induced by a bullet wound?
A) Herbert (Harbert) Brown
B) Pencroff
C) Cyrus Smith
D) Gideon Spilett
  • 87. In Jules Verne's novel 'The Mysterious Island', what substance finally saved Herbert from his fever?
A) Powdered willow bark
B) Quinine
C) Salicin
D) Aspirin
  • 88. Which Scottish physician experimented with salicin as a treatment for acute rheumatism in 1876?
A) Edward Stone
B) Charles Frédéric Gerhardt
C) Thomas John MacLagan
D) Felix Hoffmann
  • 89. In what medical journal did Thomas John MacLagan report his successful treatment of acute rheumatism with salicin?
A) Nature
B) The Lancet
C) New England Journal of Medicine
D) The British Medical Journal
  • 90. What form of salicylic acid did German scientists try with less success and more severe side effects?
A) Sodium salicylate
B) Potassium salicylate
C) Salicin
D) Acetylsalicylic acid
  • 91. What discovery in the 1880s gave rise to an 'acetylation' craze among chemists?
A) Salicylic acid
B) Penicillin
C) Quinine
D) Acetanilide
  • 92. Who treated sodium salicylate with acetyl chloride to produce acetylsalicylic acid for the first time in 1853?
A) Felix Hoffmann
B) Charles Frédéric Gerhardt
C) Thomas John MacLagan
D) Edward Stone
  • 93. In what year did Felix Hoffmann recreate acetylsalicylic acid, which was later found to have an analgesic effect?
A) 1853
B) 1876
C) 1899
D) 1897
  • 94. From which plant was Felix Hoffmann's created acid derived?
A) Salix alba
B) Haluppu-tree
C) Spiraea plant
D) Cinchona tree
  • 95. What name was given to acetylsalicylic acid by Felix Hoffmann's employer, Bayer AG?
A) Salicin
B) Aspirin
C) Salicylate
D) Acetanilide
  • 96. Who reported many uses of willow by Native Americans in the late 1990s?
A) Daniel Moerman
B) Aulus Cornelius Celsus
C) Thomas John MacLagan
D) Edward Stone
  • 97. Who described using the bark and powdered root of white willow in the early 20th century?
A) Charles Darwin
B) Maud Grieve
C) Louis Pasteur
D) Alexander Fleming
  • 98. What did Maud Grieve consider to be the active constituent of white willow?
A) Salicin
B) Tannin
C) Aspirin
D) Phenol
  • 99. Which condition was NOT mentioned by Maud Grieve as a treatment using white willow?
A) Dyspepsia
B) Worms
C) Dysentery
D) Headaches
  • 100. According to the text, what organ does willow-based pain relief avoid damaging compared to aspirin?
A) Liver
B) Kidneys
C) Stomach
D) Heart
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