Tree in Putnam County, Florida [Dan Skean, 1984] (3).
Common Names
Southern redcedar, coastal redcedar (2), sand cedar.
Taxonomic notes
Syn: Sabina silicicola Small 1923; J. silicicola (Small) Bailey (1)."These taxa are distinct from the Caribbean junipers J. lucayana Britton of the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Cuba, and J. bermudiana Linnaeus of Bermuda (Adams et al. 1987). Reports of J. virginiana var. silicicola from west of Florida are questionable" (2).
Description
"Trees to 10 m; crown flattened or conic (when young and protected or crowded). Bark cinnamon reddish. Branches spreading to pendulous. Scalelike leaves bluntly obtuse to acute at apex. Pollen cones 4-5 mm. Seed cones 3-4 mm. Seeds 1.5-3 mm." Apart from its restricted range, the variety "differs little in morphology or leaf terpenoids from upland J. virginiana and appears to intergrade with that variety in Georgia (Adams 1986)" (2).Range
USA: Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina at 0-15 m elevation on coastal foredunes and coastal river sandbanks (2). See also (5).Big Tree
Diameter 158 cm, height 23 m, crown spread 16 m, located in Archer, FL (4).Oldest
Dendrochronology
Ethnobotany
Observations
Remarks
Citations
(1) Silba 1986 .(2) Adams, Robert P. in Flora of North America online .
(3) Albion University website .
(4) American Forests 1996 .
(5) Robert S. Thompson, Katherine H. Anderson and Patrick J. Bartlein. 1999. Atlas of Relations Between Climatic Parameters and Distributions of Important Trees and Shrubs in North America. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1650 A&B. URL= http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/ppapers/p1650-a/pages/conifers.html , accessed 22-Jan-2000.
See also
Burns & Honkala 1990
(as
J. silicicola
).
Elias 1987
(as
J. silicicola
).
Little 1980
(as
J. silicicola
).
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