Trailing Juniper

Trailing Juniper

Trailing Juniper Juniperus horizontalis is very much like common Juniper but always low-growing in prickly mats. Its needles are paired and green, not whitened like those of Juniperus communis. Its fruits are blue-black berries and the plant is eaten by several kinds of animals. This species is sometimes attacked by a fungus which stimulates the plant to produce an abnormal mass of branches, a so-called "witches' broom". [CH] {TS}