Common Names
Drooping juniper, tascate (1).Taxonomic notes
Description
"Trees dioecious, to 12 m, single-stemmed to 1-2 m; crown globose. Bark cinnamon to reddish brown or gray to reddish brown, exfoliating in broad interlaced fibrous strips, that of small branchlets (5-10 mm diam.) smooth, that of larger branchlets exfoliating in wide strips or plates. Branches drooping; branchlets flaccid, 3-4-sided in cross section, ca. 2/3 or less as wide as length of scalelike leaves. Leaves green, abaxial gland variable, elongate, conspicuous, exudate absent, margins appearing entire at 20× but with irregular teeth at 40×; whip leaves 4-6 mm, not glaucous adaxially; scalelike leaves 1.5-2 mm, overlapping by 1/4-1/5 their length, apex rounded to acuminate, spreading. Seed cones maturing in 1 year, of 1 size, with straight to curved peduncles, globose, 9-20 mm, tan-brown to brownish purple when mature, glaucous, obscurely woody, with (4)6-10(13) seeds. Seeds 5-6 mm" (1).Range
USA: Texas (Big Bend National Park); Mexico: Chihuahua; at 900-2900 m on rocky soils and slopes (1).Big Tree
Oldest
Dendrochronology
Ethnobotany
Observations
Remarks
Citations
(1) Adams, Robert P. in Flora of North America online.[Juniperus] [Cupressaceae] [home]
This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
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Edited by Christopher J. Earle
E-mail:earlecj@earthlink.net
Last modified on 21-Dec-98