Juniperus glabra

• BOTANICAL NAME: Juniperuss glabra
• PRONUNCIATION: ju-NIP-er-us GLAY-bruh
• COMMON NAME: Smooth Cypress
• FAMILY: Cupressaceae
• NATIVITY: Central Arizona.
• GROWTH HABIT: Pyramidal to broad pyramidal somewhat open and graceful.
• SIZE: 30 - 45' tall.
• HARDINESS: Zone (6?) 7 - 9.
• CULTURE: Sun, with well-drained soil. Plants relish hot and dry conditions.
• LANDSCAPE USE: Specimen and large group plantings. May be used for screens in hot, dry climates.
• FOLIAGE: Leaves arranged in four rows, adpressed, scale-like and overlapping, 1/16" long. Apex of leaf sharp pointed, leaves typically blue green or gray green, highly resinous. Branchlets opposite or alternate and held at roughly 90^o to the main branch.
• BUDS:
• BARK: Bark smooth (unlike the species), cherry red to mahogany brown.
• FRUIT: Cone globose, 1 - 1 1/4" in diameter, with 6 - 8 scales.
• PROPAGATION: Seed, cuttings.
• PESTS: None serious.
• CULTIVARS:
  • `Carolina Sapphire' - intense blue foliage and rapid rate of growth.

This information is made available through a joint effort of the Departments of Food and Resource Economics and Plant and Soil Sciences College of Agricultural Sciences University of Delaware.