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Myoporum insulare, commonly known as common boobialla, native juniper, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the figwort family Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to coastal areas of Australia. It is a shrub or small tree which grows on dunes and coastal cliffs, is very salt tolerant and widely used in horticulture.
Juniper berries are a spice used in a wide variety of culinary dishes and are best known for the primary flavoring in gin (and responsible for gin's name, which is a shortening of the Dutch word for juniper, jenever). A juniper-based spirit is made by fermenting juniper berries and water to create a "wine" that is then distilled.
The foliage is bluish-gray and scale-like. The juvenile leaves (on the seedlings) are needle-like and 5 to 10 mm (3 ⁄ 16 to 3 ⁄ 8 in) long. Arranged in opposite decussate pairs or whorls of three, the adult leaves are scale-like, 1 to 5 mm (1 ⁄ 16 to 3 ⁄ 16 in) long on lead shoots and 1 to 1.5 mm (1 ⁄ 32 to 1 ⁄ 16 in) broad.
It is a source of juniper oil used in perfumes and medicines. The wood is also used as long lasting fenceposts and for bows. Several genera are important in horticulture. Junipers are planted as evergreen trees, shrubs, and groundcovers. Hundreds of cultivars have been developed, [24] including plants with blue, grey, or yellow foliage. [25]
Juniper is used in the traditional farmhouse ales of Norway, [28] Sweden, [29] Finland, [30] Estonia, and Latvia. In Norway, the beer is brewed with juniper infusion instead of water, while in the other countries the juniper twigs are mainly used as filters to prevent the crushed malts from clogging the outlet of the lauter tun. The use of ...
Juniperus virginiana foliage and mature cones. Juniperus virginiana is a dense slow-growing coniferous evergreen tree with a conical or subcylindrical shaped crown [8] that may never become more than a bush on poor soil, but is ordinarily from 5–20 metres (16–66 feet) tall, with a short trunk 30–100 centimetres (12–39 inches) in diameter, rarely to 27 m (89 ft) in height and 170 cm (67 ...
The leaves are also burnt by many Native American tribes, with the smoke used in different purification rituals. [111] A study performed at the University of Arizona in 1991 demonstrated that Salvia apiana has potential antibacterial properties against Staphylococcus aureus , Bacillus subtilis , Klebsiella pneumoniae , and Candida brassicae .
It is usually dioecious, with separate male and female plants. The seed cones are berry -like, green ripening in 18 months to orange-red with a variable pink waxy coating; they are spherical, 7–12 mm ( 1 ⁄ 4 – 1 ⁄ 2 in) diameter, and have three or six fused scales in 1–2 whorls, three of the scales with a single seed .