Tiziano wrote:
HI all
I bought one today ,the label said Chinese juniperus
but I think is rather the Japanese one
the needles smell wonderfully cedar like , I touched
others simlar looking in the park but no smell at all .
Any information about this variety and about the smell?
is this strong pleasnat cedar like smell a caratheristic of
a variety? thanks

Well, AFIK, the "Japanese" juniper is Juniperus chinensis
(whatever), which is the "Chinese juniper." There are more
variants of that species, I think than Hector had pups, and
it is "native" to a very wide range.

The juniper smell is wonderful. There's nothing at all like
standing on a mountain top in New Mexico and inhaling the
air redolent of several kinds of junipers.

Junipers that grow in urban parks are more likely to smell
of auto exhaust than of clean fresh needles.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Nature
encourages no looseness, pardons no errors. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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