About
A slow-growing, small to medium-sized, evergreen conifer from the Iberian Peninsula and northwest Africa, forming a broadly conical or columnar tree to about 15m, with aromatic, scale-like, blue-grey foliage and small, round, waxy, blue-white cones. A rare and distinctive juniper for a large, sunny, well-drained garden in a mild climate.
About the genus
Schisandra are deciduous or evergreen, monoecious or dioecious, twining shrubs. Leaves are alternate on slender stalks. Flowers are solitary or in small clusters, borne in the leaf axils, and sepals and petals are indistinguishable. In female flowers the carpels are densely packed into a head, but as they ripen they elongate, eventually forming a spike several inches long
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