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Juniperus thurifera (Spanish juniper) is a species of juniper native to the mountains of the western Mediterranean region, from southern France (including Corsica) across eastern and central Spain to Morocco and locally in northern Algeria. [3] [4] The name thurifera comes from the Latin turifer, "producer/bearer of incense". [5]
For example, the Blackfoot used juniper berry tea to cure vomiting, [17] while Crow women drank juniper berry tea after childbirth to increase cleansing and healing. [18] In addition to medicinal and culinary purposes, Native Americans have also used the seeds inside juniper berries as beads for jewellery and decoration. [16]
Many junipers (e.g. J. chinensis, J. virginiana) have two types of leaves; seedlings and some twigs of older trees have needle-like leaves 5–25 mm (3 ⁄ 16 –1 in) long, on mature plants the leaves are overlapping like (mostly) tiny scales, measuring 2–4 mm (3 ⁄ 32 – 5 ⁄ 32 in). When juvenile foliage occurs on mature plants, it is ...
Gaultheria hispidula (creeping snowberry) Infusion of leaves used as a tonic for overeating by the Algonquin people. [57] Fruit used as food. [58] Used as a sedative by the Anticosti. [59] Decoction of leaves or whole plant taken for unspecified purpose by Micmac. [60] Leaves used by Ojibwa people to make a beverage. [61]
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.
The seeds are mature in about 8 or 9 months. The male cones are 2 to 4 mm (1 ⁄ 16 to 3 ⁄ 16 in) long and shed their pollen in early spring. This juniper is largely dioecious, producing cones of only one sex, but around 2% of plants are monoecious, with both sexes on the same plant. [6]
Yucca glauca (small soapweed), seed pods boiled and used for food. [76] Leaves are made into brushes & used for decorating pottery, ceremonial masks, altars and other objects. [34] Leaves are also soaked in water to soften them and made into rope by knotting them together. [77] Dried leaves are split, plaited and made into water-carrying head ...
The leaves are of two forms, juvenile needle-like leaves 5–14 millimetres (1 ⁄ 4 – 1 ⁄ 2 in) long and 1 mm wide on seedlings, and adult scale-leaves 1–2 mm long on older plants with a green to blue-green color; they are arranged in opposite decussate pairs or whorls of three. It is largely monoecious, but some individual plants are ...