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Juniper berries are sometimes regarded as arils, [3] like the berry-like cones of yews. Juniperus communis berries vary from 4 millimetres ( 1 ⁄ 8 inch) to 12 millimetres ( 1 ⁄ 2 inch) in diameter; other species are mostly similar in size, though some are larger, notably J. drupacea ( 20–28 mm or 3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 in).
A small quantity of ripe berries can be eaten as an emergency food or as a sage-like seasoning for meat. The dried berries can be roasted and ground into a coffee substitute. [10] Utah juniper is an aromatic plant. Essential oil extracted from the trunk and limb is prominent in α-pinene, δ-3-carene, and cis-thujopsene.
This juniper is largely dioecious, producing cones of only one sex, but around 2% of plants are monoecious, with both sexes on the same plant. [ 6 ] The California juniper is closely related to the Utah juniper ( J. osteosperma ) from further east, which shares the stout shoots and relatively large cones, but differs in that Utah juniper is ...
Berries of the Sierra Juniper (Juniperus occidentalis) Sarcodes sanguinea 6,000 to 9,000 feet (1,800 to 2,700 m) Further information: Sierra Nevada upper montane forest
Flowers (June to July), edible raw, as a salad green, or pickled, or to make tea, or alcoholic beverages . Berries (August to October), edible when ripe (turning upside down) and cooked; raw berries are mildly poisonous [29] Whitebeam: Sorbus aria: Central and southern Europe: Berries, edible raw once overripe [30] Rowan, Mountain-ash: Sorbus ...
California juniper berry: Juniperus californica: Cashew apple: Anacardium occidentale: Creeping juniper berry: Juniperus horizontalis: Desert juniper berry: Juniperus osteosperma: Dwarf plum pine fruit: Podocarpus spinulosus: East African yellowwood fruit: Podocarpus milanjianus: Ginkgo: Ginkgo biloba: Greek juniper berry: Juniperus excelsa ...
Chokeberry. A cultivar of another native shrub that is grown for its berries is Iroquois Black Beauty Black Chokeberry ‘Morton' (Aronia melanocarpa). Gardeners use it as a landscape plant as well.
The fruit are berry-like cones known as juniper berries. They are initially green, ripening in 18 months to purple-black with a blue waxy coating; they are spherical, 4–12 mm ( 5 ⁄ 32 – 15 ⁄ 32 in) diameter, and usually have three (occasionally six) fleshy fused scales, each scale with a single seed.