Prickly Juniper

Description

Shrub or small tree to 15m; dioecious. Bark red-grey. Leaves all acicular, spreading, acute, to 2.5cm, flexible, green, crescent-shaped in section, 2 white stomatal bands on inner surface, keeled, grooved above. Cones to 1.5cm diameter, solitary, axillary, sperical to ovate, scales 3-6, brown, becoming a dull black; seeds three.