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Juniperus phoenicia
English: Phoenician juniper
Spanish: Sabina negral
It is a large shrub or small tree reaching 5 – 8
metres tall, with a trunk up to 1 - 2 metres in
Estonian: Foiniikia kadakas diameter and a rounded or irregular crown.
Portuguese: Sabina This species prefers a hot, arid climatic with a
Albanian: Butë Sevina lot of light and grows on rocky or sandy
Turkish: Yumusak Sevina ground.
Flowers
It has unisexual flowers.
Blooms in late Winter or
spring. It is an
influorescence and his
flowers aren’t strinking
because they are
gymnosperms.
Leaves
The leaves are of two forms, juvenile
needle-like leaves 5–14 mm long and 1
mm, and adult scale-leaves 1–2 mm
long on older plants with a green to
blue-green color; they are arranged in
opposite decussate pairs or whorls of
three.
Fruit
The fruit (false fruit),
called a pendulum, is
globose, measuring 8-10
mm and is reddish or
dark orange when ripe.