Juniper (Juniperus thurifera)

SINCE IT IS To The pricipio it has a conical or pyramidal cut becoming more slender and irregular on having grown. The trunk is short and robust. His bark, of dun greyish tone, breaks longitudinally separating in elongated strips. The leaves are very limited, as small scales, assembled in pairs objected and narrowly imbricadsrecubriendo the branches. The ramillas gather in crowds densely forming a compact green dark glass. It is peremnifolio. The fruit that is beefy of some 8mm of diameter, names arcéstida. is covered with a waxy cap and his coloration on having matured is bluish or blackish. WHERE His resistance GROWS to the drought and to the climatic ends not suitable paralos allow him to colonize areas other trees. It occupies habitually limy substrata, with skeletal soils.Though it can live enclosedly 1400 mts. of height through the amyor it divides they grow to 900-1.100 mts., forming forest opened. They have a very slow growth. Nevertheless, in the hard environmental conditions of the high moorlands it is successful in the competition with other trees, as the oak, and manages to dominate. In previous cold periods it should have covered a very much major extension, having remained restricted to his current area on having improved the climate and having advanced the leafy ones. I KNOW USA FOR His wood it is very aromatic (to it his name alludes "thurifera", producing of incense). It is very veined and stands out for his resistance to the dampness, turning out to be highly rot-proof. The sabinares are very singular forests, even in a general European context, presenting a notable landscape value his extension is relatively educed by what his conservation is considered to be priority. IN CASTILE AND LION HE IS IN: the most extensive sabinares are in the provinces of Burgos and Soria, on high calcareous high moorlands. In segovia there exist forests of notable extension, and in León's north and Palencia it appears of very limited form. Two of our nature reserves (Cannon of the Rio Wolves, Sickles of the Duratón) are populated in good part by this tree. On the common name of this species it is necessary to appear, to avoid confusions, which in some parts of our region the sabina is named a white "juniper".