| Scientific Name: | Juniperus chinensis |
| Common Name: | Chinese juniper |
| Family Name: | Cupressaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Conifer |
| Mature Size: | 5 - 7m x 3 - 4m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Irregular |
| Form: | Irregular |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract birds, Specimen plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Scale-like, Opposite, Imbricate, Prickly, Acicular, Rhomboidal, Other, Entire |
| Flowers: | n/a (male cone), Green, Brown, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Cone (winged seeds), Blue, Brown, Sep-Oct, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves pungent, scale-like (mature foliage with cones) or awl-like (juvenile foliage without cones) and extent of each can vary with age and cultivar; awls can be needle-like, nearly lanceolate, (3-)6-12mm long x 0.8-1.5mm wide, apex sharply pointed; scale leaves forming 2 opposite pairs, rhomboid-ovate, 1.5-8mm long x 1mm wide, tips obtuse; pollen cones yellow, oblong-ellipsoid, 4-6mm long x 2-3mm wide, with 14-18 microsporophylls; seed cones on short stalks, globose, purple-black to purple-brown, 4-12mm wide; seeds (1-)3(-4) per cone, ovoid, keeled, triangular in cross section, brown, 3-6mm long x 2-5mm wide. <a href ='https://www.conifers.org/cu/Juniperus_chinensis.php' target='_blank'>Conifers.org</a> | |