Juniperus rigida
Needle Juniper, Temple Juniper, Shore Juniper
Description
A plant of great elegance and versatility, it is one of the species that lends itself best to being shaped and worked to produce particularly interesting specimens. Belonging to the Cupressaceae family, it grows wild in Japan, Korea and north-eastern China. An elegant plant with a pyramidal growth habit, ascending main branches, and arched, pendulous secondary branches; its foliage is light green and prickly. The leaves grow in whorls of three needles and feature a pale band. It produces green, inedible berries which turn black when ripe.
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Pinophyta
- Class
- Pinopsida
- Order
- Cupressales
- Family
- Cupressaceae
- Genus
- Juniperus
- Species
- Juniperus rigida
