Juniperus thurifera - Spanish juniper

Spanish juniper (Juniperus thurifera) is a slow-growing evergreen conifer of the semi-arid woodlands (sabinares) of cold semi-arid interior Spain and the Atlas Mountains, typically found on calcareous, rocky soils. It is a natural pioneer species, colonizing open and abandoned arable land.

Inputs

• Full sun¹
• Well drained soil¹

Outputs

• Wood¹

Type

• Tree
• Evergreen

Functions

• Flammable²

Footnotes

1. Juniperus thurifera | Useful Temperate Plants ↩ ↩² ↩³

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, and Contra Costa County Fire Protection District’s “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), both rate junipers genus-wide as highly flammable due to volatile-oil content; no species-exact study for J. thurifera was found ↩