Juniperus communis

Juniper at Yarralumla, ACT

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Identification history

	Juniperus communis	18 May 2018	BettyDonWood
	Juniperus communis	17 May 2018	Mike

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Small tree rather than the prostrate form usually seen. Could be different subspecies.

6 comments

Mike wrote:

18 May 2018

Mature berries would be good for gin.

BettyDonWood wrote:

18 May 2018

Wikipedia states that subsp. alpinus is prostrate and subsp. communis is erect.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juniperus_communis

The photo of the whole plant is very dark and it is hard to work out what it is supposed to show. Can you get a better one?

Mike wrote:

18 May 2018

I will have to try on a cloudy day. The sunlight and shadow makes it confusing. It was a single trunk with offshoots and seedlings.

martinbudden wrote:

22 Aug 2020

I have some clearer photos of this juniper. How do I add the photos to this listing?

martinbudden wrote:

22 Aug 2020

There are no seedlings that I could find, there are some vertical side-branches from a main branch that runs along the ground and is buried by leaf/pine litter, these verticals are actually still attached to the main tree even though they appear at first glance to be separate.

Mike wrote:

22 Aug 2020

Make a new sighting and link it to this by adding the sighting number in Comments. I didn't clear any vegetation when I did the first sighting but assumed they were seedlings.

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