Juniperus foetidissima

It medium-sized tree reaching 6-25 m tall, with a trunk up to 2.5 m diameter and a broadly conical to rounded or irregular crown. The leaves are of two forms, juvenile needle-like leaves 8-10 mm long on seedlings and re-growth after branch damage, and adult scale-leaves 2-3 mm long on older plants. It is largely dioecious with separate male and female plants, but some individual plants are monoecious, producing both sexes. The cones are berry-like, 7-13 mm in diameter, blue-black with a whitish waxy bloom, and contain 1-2 seeds; they are mature in about 18 months. The male cones are 2-3.5 mm long, and shed their pollen in early spring.

Juniperus foetidissima (Foetid Juniper or Stinking Juniper) is a juniper native to southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia, from southern Albania and northern Greece across Turkey to Syria and the Lebanon, the Caucasus mountains, the Alborz mountains of northern Iran, and east to southwestern Turkmenistan. There is also an isolated population in the Crimea. It medium-sized tree reaching 6-25 m tall, with a trunk up to 2.5 m diameter and a broadly conical to rounded or irregular crown. More