Juniperus communis Junipers are conferus trees and shrubs of the cypress family Cupressaceae. Between 50 and 67 species of junipers are widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere, from the Arctic, south to tropical Africa, throughout parts of western, central, and southern Asia, east to eastern Tibet in the Old World, and in the mountains of Central America. The highest-known juniper forest occurs at an altitude of 4,900 meters (16,100 ft) in south-eastern Tibet and the northern Himalayas, creating one of the highest tree lines on earth. Juniperus communis is highly variable in form, ranging from 10 meters (33 feet)—rarely 16 m (52 ft)—tall to a low, often prostate spreading shrubs in exposed locations. It has needle-like leaves in whorls of three; the leaves are green, with a single white stomatal band on the inner surface. It never attains the scale-like adult foliage of other members of the genus. It is dioecious, with male and female cones on separate plants so requiring wind pollination to transfer pollen from male to female cones. Male trees or shrubs naturally live longer than female trees or shrubs; a male tree or shrub can live more than 2000 years. The male cones are yellow, 2–3 millimetres (3⁄32–1⁄8 in) long and fall soon after shedding their pollen March–April. The fruit are berry-like cones known as juniper berries. They are initially green, ripening in 18 months to purple black with a blue waxy coating; they are spherical, 4–12 mm (5⁄32–15⁄32 in) diameter, and usually have three (occasionally six) fleshy fused scales, each scale with a single seed. The seeds are dispersed when birds eat the cones, digesting the fleshy scales and passing the hard, unwinged seeds in their droppings. IMPORTANT: Picture shoe adult plant not for sale the sale is for a plant in the dimension described.

Juniperus communis

Junipers are conferus trees and shrubs of the cypress family Cupressaceae. Between 50 and 67 species of junipers are widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere, from the Arctic, south to tropical Africa, throughout parts of western, central, and southern Asia, east to eastern Tibet in the Old World, and in the mountains of Central America. The highest-known juniper forest occurs at an altitude of 4,900 meters (16,100 ft) in south-eastern Tibet and the northern Himalayas, creating one of the highest tree lines on earth. 

Juniperus communis is highly variable in form, ranging from 10 meters (33 feet)—rarely 16 m (52 ft)—tall to a low, often prostate spreading shrubs in exposed locations. It has needle-like leaves in whorls of three; the leaves are green, with a single white stomatal band on the inner surface. It never attains the scale-like adult foliage of other members of the genus. It is dioecious, with male and female cones on separate plants so requiring wind pollination to transfer pollen from male to female cones. Male trees or shrubs naturally live longer than female trees or shrubs; a male tree or shrub can live more than 2000 years. The male cones are yellow, 2–3 millimetres (3⁄32–1⁄8 in) long and fall soon after shedding their pollen March–April. The fruit are berry-like cones known as juniper berries. They are initially green, ripening in 18 months to purple black with a blue waxy coating; they are spherical, 4–12 mm (5⁄32–15⁄32 in) diameter, and usually have three (occasionally six) fleshy fuséd scales, each scale with a single seed. The seeds are dispersed when birds eat the cones, digesting the fleshy scales and passing the hard, unwinged seeds in their droppings.

 

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