Juniper NHS
Origin: The Balkans

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  Introduction:

  The tree adapts morphologically to the climatic conditions of the place where it lives: itadopts a slender shape on the plains, and in the mountains it grows low to the groundand spreads wide. The juniper is a shrub that is found on hillsides, in woods, heaths and clearings. It is a slow-growing evergreen with many branches from 1 to 3 meters high, sometimes reaching a height of 5 meters The shrub has narrow, pointed and needle-like green-blue leaves in bundles of 3. Its needles have a single white stripe on top, unlike Juniperus oxycedrus, which has two stripes. It has small, yellow, barely-visible, dioecious flowers (April / May) grouped into small catkins in the leaf axils. Its fruit is purple to black globular berries each containing 3 triangular seeds, which appear only on female plants after 3 years. A plant can bear several generations of berries, which are at different stages of maturity. The tree is covered with sharp-pointed needles and flowers in spring. This bushy shrub grows spontaneously in poor, dry soil, forming bushes that often do not exceed four meters in height. Its charming flowers in shades of purple and white, will produce green, globular and fleshy fruits, with the characteristic stellate scar, turning purple to black when ripe. Their pulp is floury, sweet and turpentine. The berries and leaves of common juniper are used. The berry is harvested in the autumn of its third year: its pulp is floury, sweet and terpenic.

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