Chinese juniper
Juniperus chinensis L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 17 m
- wide
- 4.6 m
Cupressaceae
Also called Chinese Juniper
Formerly Sabina chinensis
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Russian Far East to N. Myanmar and Temp. E. AsiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension full, part; Wikipedia full
- Height
- 15 m to 18 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 3.0 m to 6.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Japanese
- イブキ, ビャクシン, 伊吹
- Chinese
- 檜柏, 龍柏, 垂枝圆柏
- Czech
- jalovec čínský
- Estonian
- hiina kadakas, Hiina kadakas
- Dutch
- Chinese jeneverbes
- Norwegian Bokmål
- kinaeiner
- Korean
- 향나무
- Russian
- Можжевельник китайский, Можжевельник китайский
- Slovak
- borievka čínska
- Polish
- Jałowiec chiński
- Swedish
- kinesisk en
- Chinese (China)
- 圆柏, 桧柏
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Juniperus chinensis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.