Object Details
- Hardiness
- -10 - 10 F
- Provenance
- From a cultivated plant not of known wild origin
- Accession Number
- 2014-1257A
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Life Form
- Evergreen tree
- Average Height
- 15-30'
- Bark Characteristics
- Young bark is thin, red-brown and scaly. Mature bark is gray with shallow fissures.
- Cone Characteristics
- Seed and pollen cones are on seperate trees. Seed cones look like small berries which emerge green but darken to purple or brown with a waxy coating 18 months after pollination. Seed cones are .2-.36" across. Pollen cones are yellow and .12-.2" across.
- Dioecious
- Yes
- Foliage Characteristics
- Leaves are sharply pointed green needles which are up to 1" long, grow in whorls of 3, and have a white band on their upper surface. "Rigida," or rigid, refers to the needles.
- Structure
- Open, irregular
- Range
- E Qinghai to Sakhalin and Nansei-shoto
- Habitat
- dry mountainous areas; up to 2,200m
- See more items in
- Smithsonian Gardens Tree Collection
- On Display
- Enid A. Haupt Garden
- Common Name
- Needle Juniper
- Temple Juniper
- Group
- [vascular plants]
- Class
- Equisetopsida
- Subclass
- Pinidae
- Order
- Cupressales
- Family
- Cupressaceae
- Genus
- Juniperus
- Species
- rigida
- Smithsonian Gardens
- Topic
- Trees
- Living Collections
- Record ID
- ofeo-sg_2014-1257A
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ax74c69de62-b9d5-4421-a7b6-b0182b10dfd4
