One Seed Juniper Sacred Tree {Juniperus monosperma} Evergreen Medicinal Perennial 5 seeds FREE SHIPPING!

 

Plant Name One seed Juniper

 

Scientific Name: Juniperus monosperma

 

Synonyms: Juniperus occidentalis var. gymnocarpa, Sabina monosperma

 

Common Names: Oneseed Juniper, One-seed Juniper

 

Plant Characteristics

 

Duration: Perennial, Evergreen

 

Growth Habit: Tree, Shrub

 

Arizona Native Status: Native

 

Habitat: Upland, Mountain

 

Flower Color: Non-flowering (produces only pollen cones or seed cones)

 

Height: To 40 feet (12 m) tall, but usually much less

 

Description: These plants are dioecious. The seed cones are fleshy, round, resinous, 

usually single-seeded, and are initially green but mature to a glaucous reddish to 

brownish blue and dry to a rust color. The leaves are tiny, green, and scale-like. 

The bark is gray and shredding. The trunk is heavily branched at or near the base.

 

Special Characteristics

 

Allergenic – The pollen is a moderate allergen.

 

Edible – The cones (juniper berries) are edible, but they are small and have thin flesh.

 

Classification

 

Kingdom: Plantae – Plants

Subkingdom: Tracheobionta – Vascular plants

Superdivision: Spermatophyta – Seed plants

Division: Coniferophyta – Conifers

Class: Pinopsida

Order: Pinales

Family: Cupressaceae – Cypress family

Genus: Juniperus L. – juniper

Species: Juniperus monosperma (Engelm.) Sarg. – oneseed juniper

 

 

Juniperus monosperma (One-seed juniper) is a species of juniper native to western North 

America, in the United States in Arizona, New Mexico, southern Colorado, western Oklahoma 

(Panhandle), and western Texas, and in Mexico in the extreme north of Chihuahua. It grows 

at 970–2300 m altitude.

 

It is an evergreen coniferous shrub or small tree growing to 2–7 m (rarely to 12 m) tall, 

usually multistemmed, and with a dense, rounded crown. The bark is gray-brown, exfoliating 

in thin longitudinal strips, exposing bright orange brown underneath. The ultimate shoots 

are 1.2–1.9 mm thick. The leaves are scale-like, 1–2 mm long and 0.6–1.5 mm broad on small 

shoots, up to 10 mm long on vigorous shoots; they are arranged in alternating whorls of 

three or opposite pairs. The juvenile leaves, produced on young seedlings only, are needle-like. 

The cones are berry-like, with soft resinous flesh, subglobose to ovoid, 5–7 mm long, dark Blue 

with a pale Blue-white waxy bloom, and contain a single seed (rarely two or three); they are 

mature in about 6–8 months from pollination. The male cones are 2–4 mm long, and shed their 

pollen in late winter. It is usually dioecious, with male and female cones on separate plants, 

but occasional monoecious plants can be found. Its roots have been found to extend to as far as 

61m below the surface, making it the plant with the second deepest roots, after Boscia albitrunca.