Juniper is a broad genus that includes everything from large trees up to 30 feet tall to ground-hugging shrubs that spread wide but never get higher than 18 inches. While species like the fast ...

The world's oldest shrub was just found in Finland's tundra. The old-timer is a direct cousin of Arizona's Junipers found ...

Remarkably, the trunk of the common juniper measures less than 10 centimeters in diameter, which is small for a shrub of its age. The common juniper has resisted extreme conditions throughout its ...

trees give way to smaller plants. Hence, the need to focus on a very common and long-lived species, but capable of producing rings like trees: the juniper was perfect for our studies," explains ...

The tree is a small common juniper which is growing in ... This makes it nearly 500 years younger than the juniper. Trees are a plant which are known to last for a very long time but usually ...

1,647-year-old common juniper in Finland identified as Europe's oldest woody plant. (photo credit: The University of Padua) Scientists have identified the oldest tree in Europe—a small common ...