Chinese juniper ( Juniperus chinensis )

Chinese juniper

The [species] is a Chinese juniper possibly 'kaizuka'. Alan Hight According to The Trees of North America, Alan Mitchell and David Moore ©1987 The Chinese juniper is from China and Japan, differing from the eastern redcedar chiefly in the fruit being twice as big, the juvenile foliage harder, more prickly and and largely at the base of the shoot, not at the tip, and the sour scent of crushed foliage, in place of the fresh paint smell of redcedar. The cultivatars are found only in the warmest parts of the USA. The one that is most in the public eye is the Hollywood juniper, "Kaizuka" or "Torulosa" which was sent from Yokohama in 1920. It is female and often covered with with violet bloomed fruit. "Keteleerii" is a shapely conic form with dense, almost entirely adult, scale foliage seen in a few collections.

New Hanover Cooperative Extension Al Hight, Director

 

Taxonomic Hierarchy
Kingdom	Plantae – Vegetal, plants
Subkingdom	Viridaeplantae – green plants
Infrakingdom	Streptophyta – land plants
Division	Tracheophyta – vascular plants, tracheophytes
Subdivision	Spermatophytina – spermatophytes, seed plants
Infradivision	Gymnospermae – gymnosperms
Class	Pinopsida – conifers
Order	Cupressales
Family	Cupressaceae – cypress, redwood
Genus	Juniperus L. – juniper, cedar, cedro, redcedar, sabino
Species	Juniperus chinensis L. – Chinese juniper
Juniperus chinensis, L. Taxonomic Serial No.: 505930

References

Juniperus chinensis, L., Taxonomic Serial No.: 505930