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Manual of the Southeastern Flora - Small
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FAMILY 2. JUNIPERACEAE - JUNIPER FAMILY


Mostly evergreen often slightly resiniferous shrubs or trees, with fibrous, shreddy bark, the buds naked. Leaves mainly appressed or sometimes subulate and spreading. Ovulate ament with bractless scales. Ovules erect. Cone of dry, often thick, peltate scales, or baccate or drupaceous. Seed wingless, or winged, the wing a portion of the testa. - About 12 genera, widely distributed. The woods and the products are of great economic importance.