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chinensis: communis: conferta: horizontalis: scopulorum/virginiana
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| Juniperus
horizontalis LIME GLOW™ is a very heat tolerant
sport of 'Youngstown' with yellow foliage which turns
lime by summer. In winter it adds the familiar
Andorra-type pigments to make it oddly gold, bronze,
orange, pink, purple, and lime all at once. It is larger
and taller than the gold sports of 'Wiltonii' and is
generally more sun tolerant than them as well. Click on this image for a larger version. |
Juniperus
virginiana BLUE FLAME™ is the most elegant,
dense, and graceful of more than 50 clones of
heavily-coned ("fruitful") redcedar evaluated
by the society. This blue color comes mainly from the
tens of thousands of glaucous female cones produced every
two to three years. In the off years it is more
gray-green. This remarkable, flame-shaped, tufted old
tree has performed for many years in drought and heat. Click on the image for a larger version. |
Juniperus
deppeana 'McFetters' gives richer glaucous-blue
foliage and still retains the species' wondrous alligator
bark, showing well after a decade or so. This is
"wow stuff" for any conifer garden in warmer
climates of USDA 7 to 10. This is reason enough for
planting near a walkway for it only gets finer and firmer
with time. The green background foliage here is a from a shorter Cryptomeria. The pretty blue foliage is out of camera range. Click on this image for larger version. |
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Juniperus x
ambigens (Fassett) Hatch - new combination
ha: spreading to 'matted' shrub with
stems creeping to somewhat ascending.
la: apex subapiculate or intermediate
between the two parents
hp: J. virginiana x J. horizontalis.
ns: this new combination is the most
logical name for this hybrid. In
ns: 1945 it was common for
taxonomists to assign an interspecific hybrid
ns: to one parent or another rather
than create a new hybrid species.
syn: Juniperus virginiana var.
ambigens Fassett
hsp: Fassett 22125 at Univ. of WI
li: Fassett, N.C. 1945. Juniperus
virginiana, J. horizontalis, and
li: J. scopulorum. IV. hybrid swarms
of J. virginiana and J.
li: horizontalis. Bull. Torr. Bot.
Club 72(4): 379-384.
Juniperus x ambigens 'Reptans' (Juniperus virginiana 'Reptans')
Juniperus
'Aquarius'
ha: low spreading mound to globose
ht: 3 ft.
wd: 4-5 ft.
fc: blue to blue green
rai: replaces compact 'Pfitzerana'
type clones and 'Hetzii'
or: sport of 'Hetzii' (known as
'glauca hetzii')
so: Lake County Nursery
'Blue and Gold' - click
on image for larger version
Juniperus 'Blue
and Gold'
ha: erect-arching, very vigorous for
a variegated conifer. Sprays are more open and loose than
'Hetzii'
lc: glaucous blue mottled yellow in the foliage mass. Shoots are
about 20-30% yellow.
sex: female
frq: female strobili (cones, berries) numerous much like 'Hetzii'
or: thought to be a sport of 'Hetzii' but this needs DNA or
chemotaxonomic study. It is unlikely to have origin in
or: in the J. x media Pfitzeriana Group as those plants are male.
Juniperus
deppeana 'Davis Mountain Weeping'
ha: weeping
or: Buchholz & Buchholz Nur. of
Gaston OR 1990's
'McFetters' - click
on this image for a larger version
Juniperus
deppeana 'McFetters'
lc: rich light blue
or: Ralph McFetters found in AZ
in: Catalina Heights Nur. of Tucson
AZ c. 1982
Juniperus
deppeana 'Mount Lebanon Blue'
lc: rich, more intense blue than
species typical
Juniperus
deppeana 'Mount Santos' ('Mt. Santos')
ha: irregularly conical, generally
more compact than some variants
lc: silver-blue
ns: the word "Mount" should
be spelled out and not abbreviated in cultivar names.
Juniperus
deppeana 'Ohmy Blue'
lc: rich blue
or: Buchholz & Buchholz Nur.
1990's
Juniperus x
fassetii B. Boiv. (J. horizontalis x J. scopulorum)
li: Boiv., B. 1966. Natur. Canad.
Sci. 2: 272.
or: this wild North American hybrids
occur where the two species
or: overlap in the wild. Schurtz
(1971) says these may be only
or: evolutionary divergents rather
than true hybridization. However
or: both 'species' (defined as
extremes along the morphological
or: continuum) due intergrade as
would hybrids. Whether they are
or: physical hybrids they are at
least visual intermediates.
li: Schurtz, R.H. 1971. A taxonomic
analysis of a triparental swarm
li: in Juniperus. Ph.D.
dissertations, Univ. of NE, Lincoln.
Juniperus
'Green Mound' (Juniperus squamata 'Prostrata')
ns: this name applies to at least one
major clone of J. squamata 'Prostrata'
ns: and is preferrable since the
clone is not a J. squamata of any kind
rai: preferable to J. procumbens
'Nana' for greener effect
so: several wholesale nurseries
including Hines Nursery
Juniperus 'Grey
Owl' (Juniperus virginiana 'Glauca' x media 'Pfitzeriana')
ha: arching to spreading
lc: grey to silvery green
or: Caam Brother snUrsery of
Netherlands in 1938 as J.virginiana 'Glauca'
or: seedling near some Pfitzer
junipers (which are male)
in: F.J. Grootendorst of Boskoop
Netherlands in 1949
pl: triploid
hp: This is in total an American x
Chinese x European species cross or
hp: a tricontinental blend!
id: intermediate between parents in
habit and stomatal guard cell with
li: Hall, M.T. et. al. 1979.
Chromosome numbers of cultivated junipers.
li: Bot. Gazette 140(3): 364-370.
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