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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Feb 27, 2025

World's oldest #juniper shrub discovered in #Finland—rings suggest it's 1,647 years old https://phys.org/news/2025-02-world-oldest-juniper-shrub-finland.html

Common juniper, the oldest nonclonal woody species across the #tundra biome and the European continent https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.4514

"the juniper started its growth at #Utsjoki in 260 and died in 1906... It is the oldest shrub in the world and the oldest woody plant in Europe dated by annual rings... #junipers allow scientists to study #climate variations, exceptional #weather events etc."

World's oldest juniper shrub discovered in Finland—annual rings suggest it's 1,647 years old

Researchers from the University of Padua in Italy found a juniper at Utsjoki in Finnish Lapland, which they analyzed to be 1,647 years old by examining the annual rings. The paper is published in the journal Ecology.

Phys.org

juli g pausas Jul 29, 2024

#Phylogenomics, #taxonomy, & #evolutionary history of needle-leaved #junipers (#Juniperus sect. Juniperus): Asian blue-cone (+J communis) & Mediterranean red-cone species

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108162 Gutiérrez-Larruscain et al. #MPE

@ecology @plants @botany @plantscience @nature @biodiversity @evolution

rsp May 9, 2023

#Pines and #junipers are non-flowering plants--#gymnosperms. So why do botanists refer to pine and juniper "flowers" and "flowering? Anyone know?

Debbie Dec 26, 2022

My house. #ONstorm #photo photo taken by my brother. #snow yesterday. The #cedar tree on the left was 7ft tall and 3ft across when we bought this property in 1999. The #pine tree was my marker when we drove around trying to locate this house. I planted all the #junipers the same year. The dead tree was a tri-colour Japanese willow now a bird perch.