5 Juniper Sacred Tree {Juniperus monosperma} and 50 similar items

One Seed Juniper Sacred Tree {Juniperus monosperma} Evergreen Medicinal Perennial 5 seeds FREE SHIPPING! Plant Name One seed Juniper Scientific Name: Juniperus monosperma Synonyms: Juniperus occidentalis var. gymnocarpa, Sabina monosperma Common Names: Oneseed Juniper, One-seed Juniper Plant Characteristics Duration: Perennial, Evergreen Growth Habit: Tree, Shrub Arizona Native Status: Native Habitat: Upland, Mountain Flower Color: Non-flowering (produces only pollen cones or seed cones) Height: To 40 feet (12 m) tall, but usually much less Description: These plants are dioecious. The seed cones are fleshy, round, resinous, usually single-seeded, and are initially green but mature to a glaucous reddish to brownish blue and dry to a rust color. The leaves are tiny, green, and scale-like. The bark is gray and shredding. The trunk is heavily branched at or near the base. Special Characteristics Allergenic – The pollen is a moderate allergen. Edible – The cones (juniper berries) are edible, but they are small and have thin flesh. Classification Kingdom: Plantae – Plants Subkingdom: Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision: Spermatophyta – Seed plants Division: Coniferophyta – Conifers Class: Pinopsida Order: Pinales Family: Cupressaceae – Cypress family Genus: Juniperus L. – juniper Species: Juniperus monosperma (Engelm.) Sarg. – oneseed juniper Juniperus monosperma (One-seed juniper) is a species of juniper native to western North America, in the United States in Arizona, New Mexico, southern Colorado, western Oklahoma (Panhandle), and western Texas, and in Mexico in the extreme north of Chihuahua. It grows at 970–2300 m altitude. It is an evergreen coniferous shrub or small tree growing to 2–7 m (rarely to 12 m) tall, usually multistemmed, and with a dense, rounded crown. The bark is gray-brown, exfoliating in thin longitudinal strips, exposing bright orange brown underneath. The ultimate shoots are 1.2–1.9 mm thick. The leaves are scale-like, 1–2 mm long and 0.6–1.5 mm broad on small shoots, up to 10 mm long on vigorous shoots; they are arranged in alternating whorls of three or opposite pairs. The juvenile leaves, produced on young seedlings only, are needle-like. The cones are berry-like, with soft resinous flesh, subglobose to ovoid, 5–7 mm long, dark Blue with a pale Blue-white waxy bloom, and contain a single seed (rarely two or three); they are mature in about 6–8 months from pollination. The male cones are 2–4 mm long, and shed their pollen in late winter. It is usually dioecious, with male and female cones on separate plants, but occasional monoecious plants can be found. Its roots have been found to extend to as far as 61m below the surface, making it the plant with the second deepest roots, after Boscia albitrunca.