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Western Juniper
Juniperus occidentalis
Characteristics
• Bark dark red-brown,stringy,furrowed• Scale like leaves• Blue berries• Blue-green-grey foliage• High desert slopes
Ecology
• “It is a tree that seems positively to rejoice in the most inhospitable situations and, with a flair for the dramatic, to fix itself upon isolated pinnacles of rock”.
Peattie
• 1000-2000yrs• Low mountain slopes, canyon bottoms, dry exposed
plateaus. • Invasive• Expanding range
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