The document provides information on several woody plant species including junipers, arborvitae, yew, Arizona cypress, and cedar of Lebanon. It describes key identifying features such as leaf/needle type and arrangement, fruit/cones, bark texture, and growth habit. For each species, the text highlights distinguishing morphological characteristics.

1. Juniper ID

2. University of Wisconsin Overlapping, scale-like foliage that wraps around the branchlets

4. Juniper foliage and “berries” University of Wisconsin

7. Junipers don’t have buds – the new growth is produced from meristematic tissues under the “skin” of the twig.

8. Another horizontal Juniper Juniperus procumbens ‘Nana’ Oregon State University Rocky Mountain Juniper Juniperus scopulorum University of Connecticut

10. Oriental Arborvitae Thuja orientalis Oregon State University

11. Winter-kill damage on Arborvitae

13. Western Red Cedar – Thuja plicata Oregon State University

14. Cedar of Lebanon Cedrus libani North Carolina State University Juniper and Arborvitae are in the Cypress Family – not Cedar. There’s only one true cedar – the Cedar of Lebanon which is in the Pine Family.

16. Cupressus arizonica

17. Cupressus arizonica ‘Blue Ice’

19. But the scales of the cone are fused together and have become fleshy, not woody like other members of the cypress family.

21. Juniperus monosperma

24. Male flowers Junipers are dioecious, meaning each plant is either a male plant, with pollen cones only…..,

26. Juniperus scopulorum

38. Thuja occidentalis Western Arborvitae

50. Id from Photographs

51. Entire Tree

57. Leaf

62. Fruit

68. Bark