| |
|
|
Adds its very own interesting dusky texture with a lasting quality providing you with exceptional lasting ambiance well past the Christmas holiday and very well into the the next season.
Blue Berried Juniper
Junipers are coniferous plants in the genus Juniperus of the cypress family Cupressaceae. There are about 50-55 species of juniper, widely distributed throughout the northern hemisphere, from the arctic, south to tropical Africa in the Old World, and to the mountains of Central America in the New World. Western Juniper is a shrub or small tree very variable and often a low spreading shrub, but occasionally reaching 10 m tall. It has the largest range of any woody plant, throughout the cool temperate Northern hemisphere from the Arctic south in mountains to around 30°N latitude in North America, Europe and Asia.
They are evergreen with either needle-like and/or scale-like leaves. The seed cones are berry-like, green ripening in 18 months to purple-black with a blue waxy coating; they are spherical, 4-12 mm diameter, and usually have three (occasionally six) fused scales, each scale with a single seed. The seeds are dispersed when birds eat the cones, digesting the fleshy scales and passing the hard seeds in their droppings. The male cones are yellow, 2-3 mm long, and fall soon after shedding their pollen in March-April.
Wood from the juniper is used in making many forms of furniture and the aromatic foliage and dusky blue berries are used during the Christmas season for decorated Christmas wreaths, centerpieces, and floral arrangements.
|
|
|
|
