Intro:

Stems: Pith absent. Young twigs (1-year-old or less) green or reddish-brown, 0.75-1 mm wide, glabrous. Twigs (2-4 years old) glabrous, scaly. Leaf scars absent, bundle scars absent, stipule scars absent. Bark of mature trunks exfoliating or shreddy. Buds axillary or terminal, green, 0.1-0.5 mm long.

Leaves: Leaves evergreen, needle-like or scale-like, simple, sessile, opposite or whorled or decussate, four-ranked or imbricate, spreading or ascending or appressed, needles solitary, 0.1-1 cm long, 0.05-0.15 cm wide, awl-shaped or lanceolate or oval or ovate or rhombic, leaf margins entire, leaf apices acuminate or acute or obtuse, leaf bases decurrent or sheathing, leaf cross section two-angled or three-angled, keeled below. Leaf upper surface blue-green or brown or green or reddish-brown or yellow-green, glabrous. Leaf lower surface blue-green or brown or green or reddish-brown or yellow-green, glabrous. Stipules absent.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Pollen cones shedding pollen January or February or March, (0.25-)0.3-0.4(-0.6) cm long. Seed cone maturation 1 years. Seed cones remaining closed, terminal, sessile, nearly symmetric or symmetric, before opening globose or ovoid, 0.3-0.6(-0.7) cm long, immature seed cones green, mature seed cones blue or violet. Seed cone scales fleshy.

Fruits:

Comments: Seed cones fleshy and berry-like.

Height: (2-)10-20(-37) m tall.

plant sale text: Eastern redcedar is commonly found in old fields, fence-lines, and along woodland edges in the Southeast. Though most trees are less than 20 feet tall, very old specimens may reach 60 feet. With sun and space, it grows much like a Christmas tree. The species is dioecious: females bear light blue berries and males bear small cones on the tips of twigs. Good choice as a stand-alone specimen or as a screen tree. The fruits are a staple for small mammals and birds. The genus Juniperus supports up to 37 lepidoptera species.

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description:

stems: Pith absent. Young twigs (1-year-old or less) green or reddish-brown, 0.75-1 mm wide, glabrous. Twigs (2-4 years old) glabrous, scaly. Leaf scars absent, bundle scars absent, stipule scars absent. Bark of mature trunks exfoliating or shreddy. Buds axillary or terminal, green, 0.1-0.5 mm long.

leaves: Leaves evergreen, needle-like or scale-like, simple, sessile, opposite or whorled or decussate, four-ranked or imbricate, spreading or ascending or appressed, needles solitary, 0.1-1 cm long, 0.05-0.15 cm wide, awl-shaped or lanceolate or oval or ovate or rhombic, leaf margins entire, leaf apices acuminate or acute or obtuse, leaf bases decurrent or sheathing, leaf cross section two-angled or three-angled, keeled below. Leaf upper surface blue-green or brown or green or reddish-brown or yellow-green, glabrous. Leaf lower surface blue-green or brown or green or reddish-brown or yellow-green, glabrous. Stipules absent.

inflorescence:

flowers: Pollen cones shedding pollen January or February or March, (0.25-)0.3-0.4(-0.6) cm long. Seed cone maturation 1 years. Seed cones remaining closed, terminal, sessile, nearly symmetric or symmetric, before opening globose or ovoid, 0.3-0.6(-0.7) cm long, immature seed cones green, mature seed cones blue or violet. Seed cone scales fleshy.

fruits:

comments: Seed cones fleshy and berry-like.

cultural notes:

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native range: eastern & central North America