Common Names

偃柏 yan bai (Fu et al. 1999); miyama-byakushin, shinpaku [Japanese] (Iwatsuki et al. 1995).

Taxonomic notes

Synonymy (Iwatsuki et al. 1995, Farjon 1998):

• Juniperus sargentii (A. Henry) Takeda ex Nakai 1930;
• Sabina sargentii (A. Henry) Miyabe et Tatewaki 1938;
• Sabina pacifica Nakai 1938;
• Sabina chinensis (L.) Antoine 1857;
• Sabina chinensis (L.) Antoine subsp. sargentii (Henry) Sugim. 1972, nom. nud.;
• Sabina chinensis (L.) Antoine var. sargentii (A. Henry) Cheng et Fu 1978.

Description

Dioecious evergreen shrub 0.5-2 m tall, usually procumbent, with dense crown, horizontal trunk and upright shoots. Leaves scale- or needle-like. Scale-like leaves predominant on adult plants, dark blue-green, rounded, diamond-shaped or oval, 3-6 mm long, with dark glands. Young needle-like leaves pointed, cylindrical, to 15 mm long. Seed cones fleshy, globose, 8-9 mm diameter, each with 2-3 triangular seeds. Pollination in July, seeds mature October-November of the next year (Harkevich and Kachura 1981, Iwatsuki et al. 1995, Fu et al. 1999).

Range

Japan: S. Kuriles, Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu, in rocky places from near sea level to subalpine regions; China: Heilongjiang; rare in Russia: Sakhalin and South Kurile Islands; Korea; Taiwan (Harkevich and Kachura 1981, Iwatsuki et al. 1995, Fu et al. 1999).

Big Tree

Oldest

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Ethnobotany

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Remarks

Citations

Henry, A. 1912 in Elwes, Trees Great Britain 6: 1432.

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