Accession Data:
Juniperus chinensis L.
sect. Sabina
- Common Name: Chinese Juniper
- Family: Cupressaceae Bartling
- Country of Origin: Russian Far East to N. Myanmar and Temp. E. Asia
- Description: Dioecious (rarely monoecious) evergreen creeping shrub, shrub or tree to 25 m tall, 60 cm dbh. Bark grey-brown to red-brown, longitudinally fissured, peeling off in thin flakes. Branches ascending; branchlets straight or slightly curved, red-green, glabrous, terete or 4-angled, 1-1.2 mm in diameter. Both acicular and scale-like leaves may be present, the acicular leaves predominating on juvenile plants and lower branches of older plants. The acicular leaves are decussate or in whorls of 3, loosely arranged, ascending, nearly lanceolate, (3-)6-12 mm long, 0.8-1.5 mm wide, compressed, apex pointed and soft or spiny, gradually narrowing toward base, with 2 white stomatal bands on upper surface, light to dark green, slightly ridged on lower surface. Scale leaves are decussate opposite, closely appressed, rhomboid-ovate, obtuse, ca. 1.5 mm long, 1 mm wide, dark green, with an oblong gland in middle of dorsal surface. Flowers are solitary, terminal on previous year's scale leaved shoots, appearing in February to April. Pollen cones are yellow, oblong-ellipsoid, 4-6 mm long and 2-3 mm wide, with 14-18 microsporophylls. Seed cones are on short stalks, globose, purple-black to purple-brown, 4-10 mm diameter, with (1-)3(-4) seeds. Seeds ovoid, blunt, keeled, triangular in cross section, brown, 3-6 mm long and 2-5 mm wide, with resin pits. Chromosome number: 2n = 22, 33, 44.5
- USDA Zone: 4
Accession Data:
- Accession # 201800126
- Source: John Korte (seed from treeseeds.com)
- Accession Date: 10-25-2019
- Bench: 2301 - Temperate Asia
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 3 confirmed on 11-22-2022
Classification:
- Division: Pinophyta
- Class: Pinopsida
- SubClass: Pinidae
- Order: Cupressales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Cupressaceae
- SubFamily: Cupressoideae
- Tribe:
- SubTribe:
References (internal):
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Khabarovsk / Kuril Is. / Primorye / Sakhalin / China South-Central / Inner Mongolia / Manchuria / China North-Central / China Southeast / Japan / Korea / Taiwan / Myanmar
References (external):
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Friday, 25 October, 2019.
- WCSP (2019). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Friday, 25 October, 2019.
- ARS-GRIN Taxonomy. Last accessed on Friday, 25 October, 2019.
- Wikipedia. Last accessed on Friday, 25 October, 2019.
- The Gymnosperm Database. Last accessed on Friday, 25 October, 2019.
data regenerated on Mon, 10 Apr 2023 12:24:03 -0400 [bcm v4.0]
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Subfamily Cunninghamhioideae
Subfamily Cupressoideae
Subfamily Sequoioideae
Subfamily Taxodioideae
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