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Index of Subjects Yes, I want to confirm, it was the same plant. This is not two species (J. communis / J. horizontalis). J. communis has substantially larger needles. There have been subsequent comments at the iNaturalist page, where the photos can be seen (https://inaturalist.ca/observations/21797238). On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 3:21 PM Stephen Shaw <srshaw@dal.ca> wrote: > > How possible if as stated, 'on the same plant’? Note that April 1st, posted just before noon. > > On Apr 1, 2019, at 11:49 AM, George Forsyth <ge4syth@gmail.com> wrote: > > Great sighting! > You have two native junipers, "the scaly one" is Juniperus horizontalis, "the spiny one" is Juniperus communis. > See the NS Museum document for its range: https://ojs.library.dal.ca/NSM/article/view/4873/4390 > Not often are you able to see both on the same walk, usually somewhere coastal in NS. > > Cheers, George Forsyth > > On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 at 18:29, Burkhard Plache <burkhardplache@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello fellow botanists, >> >> while walking today in the Herring Cove Provincial Park Reserve, along >> the coast, between granite outcrops in the coastal barrens, I found >> these two twigs on the same plant (photo at iNaturalist, >> https://inaturalist.ca/observations/21797238). >> >> To me, the smaller one is clearly creeping juniper. The larger twig >> looks different, and further on the trail, there were many places >> where both forms were growing on the same plant. The scaly form was >> more frequent, the spiny form restricted to locations where the twig >> was less exposed (between other plants, off the barren granite). >> >> Any comments/info appreciated. >> Burkhard > >
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