Juniper and Birch

Birch

Juniper

It needs plenty of light and does best on dry, acid soils and is found on heathland, mountainsides and clinging to crags. Its tolerance to pollution make it suitable for planting in industrial areas and exposed sites.

The flowers are monoecious

The bark of all birches is characteristically marked with long, horizontal black stripes, and often separates into thin, papery plates.

branches grow downwards

wood is hard and quick growing

arukõiv, maarjakask, raudkask, õmmik

birch has stems rising from a common root system.

the leaves have short slender stalks and are 3 to 7 cm

Birch has valuable Wood Quality, high-density plywood, firewood, decorative

Junipers are coniferous plants

20–40 m and 100 years

typically reaching 15 to 25m and 150years.

it has a coned appereance

Junipers are gymnosperms, which means they have seeds, but no flowers or fruits.

it has little spikes as leaves

Wood can be good for making all sorts of spoons

Jupiners like dry soil and some plants are even found as high as 4.900m

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