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Average density range at u = 12% [kg / m³]
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Ashe juniper; Mexican juniper; Mountain cedar; Ozark white cedar; Post cedar; Rock cedar

Juniperus ashei

Softwood Pinopsida DC
Pinales Central USA: Arkansas, Missouri (Ozark Mts.), Oklahoma, Texas (Edwards Plateau, W Texas); Mexico: N Coahuila.; North-Central U.S.A.; Missouri; Oklahoma; South-Central U.S.A.; Texas; Southeastern U.S.A.; Arkansas; Mexico; Coahuila
Cupressaceae
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Southern Red Cedar; Pencil-wood

Juniperus barbadensis

Softwood Pinopsida DC
Pinales Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Windward Islands.; Caribbean; Bahamas; Cuba; Haiti; Jamaica; Saint Lucia
Cupressaceae
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Bermuda cedar; Bermuda juniper; Bermuda red cedar

Juniperus bermudiana

Softwood Pinopsida DC
Pinales Bermuda; Caribbean; Bermuda
Cupressaceae
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California Juniper; Sweet-fruited Juniper

Juniperus californica

Softwood Pinopsida DC
Pinales USA: W Arizona, California, S Nevada; Mexico: Baja California Norte (including Cedros Island and Guadalupe Island).; Southwestern U.S.A.; Arizona; California; Nevada; Mexico; Guadalupe Island; Baja California
Cupressaceae
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Juniperus chinensis subsp. kaizuka

Softwood Pinopsida DC
Pinales Myanmar [Burma], China, Japan, Korea, Russian Far East, Taiwan; Russian Far East; Khabarovsk; Kuril Islands; Primorye; Sakhalin; China; Chongqing; Guizhou; Hubei; Sichuan; Yunnan; Nei Mongol; Ningxia; Heilongjiang; Jilin; Liaoning; Beijing; Gansu; Hebei; Shaanxi; Shandong; Shanxi; Tianjin; Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Henan; Hong Kong; Hunan; Jiangsu; Jiangxi; Zhejiang; Tibet; Eastern Asia; Hokkaido; Honshu; Kyushu; Shikoku; North Korea; South Korea; Taiwan; Indo-China; Myanmar
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Common juniper

Juniperus communis

Softwood Pinopsida DC
Pinales Temperate Eurasia, North Africa, North America N of Mexico. Juniperus communis is the most widely distributed conifer species in the world, with a circumpolar distribution extending from ca. 70° N in Alaska, Scandinavia and Siberia to ca. 28° N in the Himalaya. Comprehensive area maps are given in Hegi's Illustrierte Flora von Mitteleuropa (Zoller, 1981) and Hultén & Fries (1986). Zoller presents an inclusive outline map of the species; Hultén & Fries map six varieties separately, one of these is not here recognised (var. hemisphaerica in the Mediterranean and W Asia). Both maps show some scattered dots in central China, but the species is not recorded in Flora of China (Fu & al., 1999). In this study, it has been found to occur in border mountains of Xinjiang in NW China and in Jilin in NE China. The subalpine form, var. saxatilis (var. montana in Hultén & Fries, 1986, subsp. nana in Flora of Alaska, Hultén, 1968) does extend into the W Himalaya but not (far) into Xizang (Tibet). Confusion with J. pingii and J. squamata is the likely source of these errors. This variety has the widest distribution, in Eurasia it is almost coincident with the species as a whole. In the colder parts of the boreal forest zone and in the subarctic and arctic tundras it occurs in lowlands as well as mountains and only in lower latitudes does it retreat to similar climatic zones in mountain systems, with the W Himalaya as its most southern outlier. Juniperus communis var. communis extends from Spain eastward accross Europe to central Siberia and is essentially a lowland form reaching higher altitudes only along its southern fringe in the Mediterranean, the Caucasus and Elburz mountains. It is more polymorphic than var. saxatilis as it occurs in more diverse habitats. Distribution patterns are still only vaguely outlined in NE Asia, but it seems that var. nipponica is indeed geographically separated, occurring only in Japan and the southern Kuriles. In North America three varieties occur (Flora of North America, Adams, 1993). Hultén & Fries (1986) map J. communis var. montana (= var. saxatilis) across Canada, Alaska and the Rocky Mountains, but in Flora of North America most of that range is instead assigned to var. depressa, with var. montana restricted to S Greenland and from British Columbia in Canada south to California. However, it does occur in coastal Alaska. Sometimes the distinction between the two varieties is difficult to make out in herbarium specimens. The W American populations of var. saxatilis are then quite disjunct from the E Asian ones as nearly all of the dots in Flora of Alaska (Hultén, 1968) should be assigned to var. depressa. This variety reaches its southernmost limits in N Georgia and W Texas. The much more restricted var. megistocarpa appears to be limited to the maritime region of E Canada.; Northern Europe; Denmark; Finland; Faroe Islands; Great Britain; Iceland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; Middle Europe; Austria; Liechtenstein; Belgium; Luxembourg; Czech Republic; CZE-SK; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland; Southwestern Europe; Baleares; Corsica; Channel Islands; France; Portugal; Sardinia; Andorra; Gibraltar; Spain; Southeastern Europe; Albania; Bulgaria; Greece; Italy; Crete; Romania; Sicilia; European Turkey; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Croatia; Kosovo; Macedonia; Montenegro; Serbia; Slovenia; Eastern Europe; Belarus; Estonia; Kaliningrad; Latvia; Lithuania; Krym; Central European Russia; East European Russia; North European Russia; South European Russia; Northwest European Russia; Moldova; Ukraine; Northern Africa; Algeria; Morocco; Siberia; Altay; Buryatiya; Chita; Irkutsk; Krasnoyarsk; Tuva; West Siberia; Yakutskiya; Russian Far East; Amur; Kamchatka; Khabarovsk; Kuril Islands; Magadan; Primorye; Sakhalin; Central Asia; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Turkmenistan; Tajikistan; Uzbekistan; Caucasus; North Caucasus; Transcaucasus; Western Asia; Afghanistan; Cyprus; East Aegean Is.; Iran; Iraq; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey; China; Nei Mongol; Manchuria; Xinjiang; Mongolia; Mongolia; Eastern Asia; Hokkaido; Honshu; North Korea; South Korea; Indian Subcontinent; Nepal; Pakistan; Himachal Pradesh; Jammu-Kashmir; Uttaranchal; Subarctic America; Alaska; Greenland; Nunavut; Northwest Territories; Yukon; Western Canada; Alberta; British Columbia; Manitoba; Saskatchewan; Eastern Canada; Labrador; New Brunswick; Newfoundland; Saint Pierre and Miquelon; Nova Scotia; Ontario; Prince Edward Island; Québec; Northwestern U.S.A.; Colorado; Idaho; Montana; Oregon; Washington; Wyoming; North-Central U.S.A.; Illinois; Iowa; Kansas; Minnesota; Missouri; North Dakota; Nebraska; Oklahoma; South Dakota; Wisconsin; Northeastern U.S.A.; Connecticut; Indiana; Maine; Massachusetts; Michigan; New Hampshire; New Jersey; New York; Ohio; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island; Vermont; West Virginia; Southwestern U.S.A.; Arizona; California; Nevada; Utah; South-Central U.S.A.; New Mexico; Southeastern U.S.A.; Georgia; Kentucky; North Carolina; South Carolina; Tennessee; Virginia
Cupressaceae Native in Switzerland (Label Swiss Wood)
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Juniperus convallium

Softwood Pinopsida DC
Pinales China: S Gansu, SE Qinghai, W Sichuan, E Xizang [Tibet], NW Yunnan.; China; Sichuan; Yunnan; Gansu; Qinghai; Tibet
Cupressaceae
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Alligator Juniper; Thick-bark Juniper; Alligator juniper; checkerbark juniper

Juniperus deppeana

Softwood Pinopsida DC
Pinales SW USA: Arizona, New Mexico, W Texas; Mexico; Southwestern U.S.A.; Arizona; South-Central U.S.A.; New Mexico; Texas; Mexico; Puebla; Coahuila; Chihuahua; Durango; Hidalgo; Zacatecas; Veracruz; Sonora; Oaxaca
Cupressaceae
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Formosa Juniper; Formosan juniper; Prickly cypress

Juniperus formosana

Softwood Pinopsida DC
Pinales China: S Anhui, Chongqing, W Fujian, E Gansu, Guizhou, W Hubei, S Hunan, S Jiangsu, Jiangxi, NE Qinghai, S Shaanxi, Sichuan, S Xizang [Tibet], Yunnan, Zhejiang; Taiwan.; China; Chongqing; Guizhou; Hubei; Sichuan; Yunnan; Gansu; Shanxi; Qinghai; Anhui; Fujian; Hunan; Jiangsu; Jiangxi; Zhejiang; Tibet; Eastern Asia; Taiwan
Cupressaceae
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Shrubby red cedar; Waukegan juniper; American savin; Creeping juniper

Juniperus horizontalis

Softwood Pinopsida DC
Pinales Boreal and Subarctic North America, from Alaska (disjunct) to Newfoundland, more scattered further south in the USA.; Subarctic America; Alaska; Nunavut; Northwest Territories; Yukon; Western Canada; Alberta; British Columbia; Manitoba; Saskatchewan; Eastern Canada; Labrador; New Brunswick; Nova Scotia; Newfoundland; Ontario; Prince Edward Island; Québec; Northwestern U.S.A.; Montana; Wyoming; North-Central U.S.A.; Illinois; Iowa; Minnesota; Missouri; Nebraska; North Dakota; South Dakota; Wisconsin; Northeastern U.S.A.; Maine; Massachusetts; Michigan; New York; Vermont; Southeastern U.S.A.; Virginia
Cupressaceae
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Western Juniper; Yellow Cedar; Pencil wood; Sierra juniper

Juniperus occidentalis

Softwood Pinopsida DC
Pinales W USA: California, W Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Washington.; Northwestern U.S.A.; Idaho; Oregon; Washington; Southwestern U.S.A.; California; Nevada
Cupressaceae
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East African pencil cedar

Juniperus procera

Softwood Pinopsida DC 2 Africa
JUPR Pinales NE, E & S Tropical Africa: Congo Republic, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Somalia, Sudan (near Red Sea), Tanzania, Uganda, NE Zimbabwe; Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia (Asir Range), Yemen.; West-Central Tropical Africa; Zaire; Northeast Tropical Africa; Djibouti; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan; East Tropical Africa; Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda; South Tropical Africa; Malawi; Zimbabwe; Arabian Peninsula; Saudi Arabia; North Yemen
Cupressaceae
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Needle juniper; Temple juniper

Juniperus rigida

Softwood Pinopsida DC
Pinales China: Gansu, N Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Monggol [Inner Mongolia], Ningxia, E Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shanxi; Japan: Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Nansei-Shoto (Ryukyu Islands), Shikoku; North Korea; Russian Far East: Primorje, Sakhalin.; Russian Far East; Primorye; Sakhalin; China; Nei Mongol; Ningxia; Heilongjiang; Jilin; Liaoning; Gansu; Hebei; Shaanxi; Shanxi; Qinghai; Eastern Asia; Hokkaido; Honshu; Kyushu; Shikoku; Nansei-shoto; North Korea
Cupressaceae
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Flaky juniper; Himalayan juniper; Nepalese juniper; Single-seed juniper

Juniperus squamata

Softwood Pinopsida DC
Pinales Afghanistan; N Pakistan; India (Himalaya); Nepal; Bhutan; N Myanmar [Burma]; China: S Anhui, Chongqing, W Fujian, S Gansu, E Guizhou, W Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xizang [Tibet], Yunnan; Taiwan.; Western Asia; Afghanistan; China; Chongqing; Guizhou; Hubei; Sichuan; Yunnan; Gansu; Shaanxi; Qinghai; Anhui; Fujian; Tibet; Eastern Asia; Taiwan; Indian Subcontinent; Assam; Arunachal Pradesh; Bhutan; Darjiling; Sikkim; Nepal; Pakistan; Himachal Pradesh; Jammu-Kashmir; Uttaranchal; Indo-China; Myanmar
Cupressaceae
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Incense juniper; Spanish juniper

Juniperus thurifera

Softwood Pinopsida DC
Pinales SW Europe: S France (Alpes Maritimes), N and SE Spain; North Africa: Morocco, N Algeria.; Southwestern Europe; France; Spain; Northern Africa; Algeria; Morocco
Cupressaceae
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Virginian pencil cedar; Red Cedar; Pencil Cedar; Eastern red cedar; Virginian juniper; eastern juniper; red juniper; Eastern Redcedar; Southern Redcedar; Redcedar

Juniperus virginiana

Softwood Pinopsida DC 2 America
JUVR Pinales E North America: from S Quebec to Florida, westward to North Dakota and Texas.; Eastern Canada; Ontario; Québec; North-Central U.S.A.; Illinois; Iowa; Kansas; Minnesota; Missouri; North Dakota; Nebraska; Oklahoma; South Dakota; Wisconsin; Northeastern U.S.A.; Connecticut; Indiana; Maine; Massachusetts; Michigan; New Hampshire; New Jersey; New York; Ohio; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island; Vermont; West Virginia; South-Central U.S.A.; Texas; Southeastern U.S.A.; Alabama; Arkansas; Delaware; Florida; Georgia; Kentucky; Louisiana; Maryland; Mississippi; North Carolina; South Carolina; Tennessee; Virginia; District of Columbia
Cupressaceae
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Kadsura scandens

Hardwood Magnoliopsida DC
Austrobaileyales Java; peninsular Malaysia (Penang, Perak, Selangor-Pahang border, Negeri Sembilan, Melaka, Pahang, Johor); Singapore; Lesser Sunda Isl. (Bali); Sumatra; Thailand; Laos
Schisandraceae
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Mountain laurel; calico-bush; spoonwood

Kalmia latifolia

Hardwood Magnoliopsida DC
Ericales USA (Alabama, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Vermont, West Virginia)
Ericaceae
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Sen; devil's walking stick, white nut tree, Castor-oil tree, Castor aralia (GB)

Kalopanax pictus

Hardwood Magnoliopsida DC
Apiales
Araliaceae
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Kalopanax septemlobus

Hardwood Magnoliopsida DC
Apiales Kuril Islands; Primorye; Sakhalin; China South-Central; Manchuria; China North-Central; China Southeast; Japan; Korea; Nansei-shoto; New York
Araliaceae
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