Juniperus phoenicea - Phoenician juniper

Phoenician juniper (Juniperus phoenicea) is an evergreen tree of rocky Mediterranean coasts and hills, extremely drought- and salt-tolerant. Its seed cones are used as a flavouring, and its aerial parts have a history of medicinal use.

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Hardiness zone 11¹

Outputs

• Human food¹
• Medicinal use¹
• Wood¹

Type

• Tree
• Evergreen
• Perennial

Functions

• Windbreak¹
• Wildlife habitat¹
• Flammable²³

Footnotes

1. Juniperus phoenicea | Plants for a Future ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰

2. Pausas, J.G. & Verdú, M., “Plant persistence traits in fire-prone ecosystems of the Mediterranean basin: a phylogenetic approach,” Oikos 109(1), 2005, pp. 196-202: “junipers are prone to fires due to their high content of volatile substances, which makes them highly flammable” ↩

3. Contra Costa County Fire Protection District, “Wildland Urban Interface Vegetation Lists,” 2021 (https://web.archive.org/web/20250504084353/https://ccfd.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CCFD-WUI-Vegetation-Lists-2021.pdf), rates “Juniperus Spp.” genus-wide as high fire hazard ↩