Juniperus pinchotii
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Description: Taxonomic notes, physical description and range of Pinchot's Juniper. Distribution map included.
Juniperus pinchotii (redberry juniper) description Pinchot juniper, redberry juniper ( observes that the "type specimen of is merely an individual with brighter red seed cones." Dioecious shrubs or small trees up to 6 m tall, usually multistemmed with stems to 20 cm diameter, having an irregular crown. Bark smooth, becoming flaky, becoming fibrous, pale gray, exfoliating in strips. Branchlets stiff, about 1 mm diameter, erect, 3-4-sided in cross section. Bears both needles-like and scale-like leaves, but the scale-like leaves predominate; they are yellow-green, 1-2 mm long, not overlapping or overlap only slightly, and have an acute apex; many bear ruptured glands that emit an aromatic white exudate. Seed cones maturing in 1 year, 6-8 mm diameter, copper to copper-red in color, juicy, sweet (not resinous), mostly with a single seed 4-5 mm in diameter (
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