Common Names

Drooping juniper (Vidakovic 1991).

Taxonomic notes

Two varieties, the type (syn.: Sabina recurva; J. recurva var. typica; Sabinella recurva; J. recurva var. tenuifolia; Sabina recurva var. tenuifolia) and Juniperus recurva var. coxii (A.B. Jacks.) Melville 1959 (syn.: J. coxii; Sabina recurva var. coxii (Farjon 2005).

Description

"A shrub or up to 10 m high tree. Crown broadly conical. Branches spreading and slightly recurved. Branchlets pendulous. Bark gray-brown, peeling off in thin strips. Foliage needle-like, in whorls of 3, 3-6 mm long, up to 1 mm wide, sharply pointed, with 2 white bands above. Male and female flowers on the same or on different trees. Fruit ovate, 8-10 mm long, dark purplish-brown, ripening in the second year. Seed solitary" (Vidakovic 1991).

Range

Nepal; Sikkim; Bhutan; India: Arunachal Pradesh and Kumaun; Myanmar; China: Xizang [Tibet], Yunnan, Sichuan (Farjon 2005).

Big Tree

Oldest

Dendrochronology

Ethnobotany

Observations

Remarks

See Also

Farjon (2005) provides a detailed account, with illustrations.

This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
URL: http://www.conifers.org/cu/ju/recurva.htm
Edited by Christopher J. Earle
Last modified on 2007.05.30