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Juniperus chinensis, the Chinese juniper, is a species of plant in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to China, Myanmar, Japan, Korea and the Russian Far East. [1] Growing 1–20 metres (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 – 65 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet) tall, it is a very variable coniferous evergreen tree or shrub.
J. chinensis Montana Moss – This durable groundcover brings lovely texture and a refreshing blue-green tone to a landscape with moss-like foliage that is soft to the touch. It grows 2-4 feet ...
Detail of Juniperus chinensis shoots, with juvenile (needle-like) leaves (left), adult scale leaves, and immature male cones (right) 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 ...
Cupressaceae is a widely distributed conifer family, with a near-global range in all continents except for Antarctica, stretching from 70°N in arctic Norway (Juniperus communis) [3] to 55°S in southernmost Chile (Pilgerodendron uviferum), further south than any other conifer species. [4] Juniperus indica reaches 4930 m altitude in Tibet. [5]
Juniperus chinensis 'Shimpaku' (the shimpaku juniper) is a dwarf, irregular vase-shaped form of the Chinese juniper, Juniperus chinensis. Originally native to Japan, they were first collected in the 1850s in Japan. It is a slow-growing evergreen shrub that typically grows to 3 ft (0.9 m) tall and 5 ft (1.5 m) wide over a period of 10 years. [1]
Juniperus procumbens is a species of shrub in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to Japan. This low-growing evergreen conifer is closely related to the Chinese juniper, Juniperus chinensis , and is sometimes treated as a variety of it, as J. chinensis var. procumbens .
Young green and mature purple berries can be seen growing on the same plant. Unlike the separated and woody scales of a typical pine cone, those in a juniper berry remain fleshy and merge into a unified covering surrounding the seeds. Juniper berries are sometimes regarded as arils, [3] like the berry-like cones of yews.
A Juniperus chinensis tree, over 1500 years-old, is located near Southeast University (Chinese: 东南大学; pinyin: Dōngnán Dàxué) in Nanjing. It was planted by the Emperor Wu of Liang , the founder of the Liang dynasty during the Six Dynasties period, within the compound of the Liang imperial palace.