World Species : Juniperus chinensis (Chinese Juniper; Sargent juniper; Chinese pyramid juniper)

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Juniperus chinensis (Chinese Juniper; Sargent juniper; Chinese pyramid juniper)

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Language: Chi; Chinese; Cze; Dut; Fre; Ger; Hrv, Srp; Hun; Japanese; Jpn (Kanji); Jpn (Katakana); Kor (Hangul); Korea; Rus; Spa

Wikipedia Abstract

Juniperus chinensis (Chinese juniper, 圆柏, 桧) is a juniper that grows as a shrub or tree with a very variable shape, reaching 1–20 m tall. This native of northeast Asia grows in China, Mongolia, Japan, Korea and the southeast of Russia.

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Infraspecies

Attributes

Air Quality Improvement ^[1]	Low
Allergen Potential ^[1]	High
Carbon Capture ^[1]	Low
Shade Percentage ^[1]	83 %
Temperature Reduction ^[1]	Medium-Low
Wind Reduction ^[1]	Medium

Leaf Type ^[2]	Evergreen
Specific Gravity ^[3]	0.519
Structure ^[2]	Tree

Height ^[1]	45 feet (13.7 m)
Width ^[1]	17 feet (5.3 m)

Hardiness Zone Minimum ^[1]	USDA Zone: 4 Low Temperature: -30 F° (-34.4 C°) → -20 F° (-28.9 C°)
Hardiness Zone Maximum ^[1]	USDA Zone: 10 Low Temperature: 30 F° (-1.1 C°) → 40 F° (4.4 C°)
Water Use ^[1]	Moderate

Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location
Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	VI	16363	Delaware, United States
Desecheo National Wildlife Refuge			Puerto Rico, United States
Great Smoky Mountains National Park	II	515454	North Carolina, Tennessee, United States
Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve		37548505	North Carolina, Tennessee, United States

Predators

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Consumers

Parasitized by
Gymnosporangium asiaticum	^[7]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

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♦ ¹i-Tree Species v. 4.0, developed by the USDA Forest Service's Northern Research Station and SUNY-ESF using the Horticopia, Inc. plant database.
♦ ²Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ ³Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366. Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository.
♦ ⁴HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ ⁵Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ ⁶Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ ⁷Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.

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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0