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Vascular Flora of the Southeastern United States
Hardin, Massey, Radford, Thieret, eds.

Copyright - James W. Hardin, Ph. D., 1998, 1999. All Rights Reserved.


5. JUNIPERUS L. JUNIPER, CEDAR


Dioecious, or rarely monoecious, shrubs or trees; bark reddish brown, fibrous, with vertical flat ridges. Branchlets and twigs variously oriented, not flattened. Leaves of two types: short-lanceolate (awl-shaped) in whorls of 3; and, scale-like, closely appressed, and usually decussate. Pollen cones oblong, small. Seed cones globose and "berry-like"; scale-bract complexes all fused, semi-fleshy, and indehiscent; seeds wingless, 1-3(6) per cone.