Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Family
Chapter:
644.35.00
644.35.00 Salicaceae
Names: Flacourtiaceae, Samydaceae, Scyphostegiaceae.
English: Willow family.
French: Salicacees.
Botany: 55 genera; parietal placentation.
Content: cyclopentoid cyanogenic glucosides.
Samydaceae: Casearia; tropical and subtropical; in the past in Flacourtiaceae.
Lacistemataceae: 2 genera, Lacistema, Lozania.
Taxonomy
In the Cronquist system Salicaceae was placed in its own order Salicales, containing 3 genera. In the Apg3 classification Salicaceae is placed in Malpighiales, closely related to Violaceae and Achariaceae. Salicaceae is greatly extended with genera from Flacourtiaceae. Samydaceae and Lacistemataceae are included in Salicaeae.
In the Plant theory Salicaceae is treated in the same way and placed in Subphase 5.
Introduction
They have a duality of on the one hand adapting and pleasing and on the other hand being pushy and demanding in their family and the community. They are nice and soft in order to bring harmony in the family, but they can also feel limited by them. They have a strong drive for harmony, a strong drive to make the group stronger. They want to expand the power and value of the family but on the other hand they feel too unsure and fear they might disturb the harmony by their drive.
Mind
Feel weak, behave strong.
Energy: weakness of identity.
General
Sensation: dragging.
Body
Vertigo: Meniere’s.
Stomach: dyspepsia.
Limbs: arthritis; fibromyalgia.