Many animal species take shelter in the dense branches to avoid wind and cold it is a source of food for many moth species, including juniper carpet, juniper jug, pine beauty, and Cydia duplicana Water: Can survive on less water newly planted trees need to be watered twice a week in the first summer monthsĭiseases include wood decay, twig blights, canker diseases, rusts, witches’ broom some of the pests are bark beetles, mealybugs, flatheaded borers, armored scales, aphids, spider mites, and sawflies Soil: Well-drained, rocky, loamy, compacted, grained
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Sunlight: Thrives in full sun, survives in partial shade Typically ranges from 350-700 years, some may survive for more than 1000 years Slow to medium-fast, varies between 1 and 2 feet per year Trunk Diameter: 2-4 ft on average, but some trees can measure up to 13 ftīark: Reddish-brown, peels off in long, thin, vertical stripsĬones: Males are uniform in structure, 0.04-0.7 in long, have 6-20 scales females have fleshy, fruit-like scales that form a ‘berry’, 0.16-1.06 in longĬrown: Upright, columnar, or low-spreadingĭry, rocky, mountainous regions, large, open woodlands Leaves: Glossy green, needle-like, 0.20-1.00 in long and/or scale-like, 0.080-0.157 in long, overlapping In addition to the above species, there are some dwarf (miniature) cultivars of juniper, including the Juniperus x pfitzeriana ‘Gold Coast’. Eastern red cedar ( Juniperus virginiana).Standley’s juniper ( Juniperus standleyi).Rocky Mountain juniper ( Juniperus scopulorum).Saltillo juniper ( Juniperus saltillensis).Western juniper ( Juniperus occidentalis).Mountain juniper ( Juniperus monticola).One-seed juniper ( Juniperus monosperma).Creeping juniper ( Juniperus horizontalis).Mexican weeping juniper ( Juniperus flaccida).Durango juniper ( Juniperus durangensis).Alligator juniper ( Juniperus deppeana).Coahuila juniper ( Juniperus coahuilensis).California juniper ( Juniperus californica).Bermuda juniper ( Juniperus bermudiana).
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West Indies juniper ( Juniperus barbadensis).Redberry juniper ( Juniperus arizonica).Mexican one-seed juniper ( Juniperus angosturana).
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Himalayan black juniper ( Juniperus wallichiana).Russian juniper ( Juniperus semiglobosa).Xinjiang juniper ( Juniperus pseudosabina).East African juniper ( Juniperus procera).Phoenicean juniper ( Juniperus phoenicea).Komarov’s juniper ( Juniperus komarovii).Stinking juniper ( Juniperus foetidissima).Large-berry juniper ( Juniperus macrocarpa).Western prickly juniper ( Juniperus oxycedrus).
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