Juniperus excelsa
Juniperus excelsa
Ssp excelsa: Boz ardıç; Ssp polycarpus: Daltaban ardıcı
Shrub or usually tree up to 20 m, Branchlets terete, 0.7-1.3 mm wide. Mature leaves on ultimate branchlets triangular-rhombic. adpressed, 0.6-1.6 mm long, with a conspicuous dorsal elliptic to nearly circular gland. Cone 6-11 mm, globose. purplish-brown to blackish-purple, often glaucous. Seeds 3-6, free. Divided into 2 subspecies by Farjon : one with a distribution in SE. Europe, the Crimea and mainly southern Turkey to Lebanon, the other a more continental element extending from N. Turkey to Kirgizstan and Pakistan:
1. Ultimate branchlets slender to very fine, 0.7-1 mm diam . often disposed in flattened sprays; scale leaves very small, on ultimate branches 0.6-1 mm long, appressed; cones 6-11 mm diam. ... subsp. excelsa
1. Ultimate branchlets coarser, thicker, 1-1.3 mm diam., more irregularly disposed; scale leaves larger on ultimate branchlets 1.2-1.6 mm long, appressed or sometiines free at apex; cones 6-14mm diam. subsp. polycarpos
