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(First upload on May 3 2016. Last on April 18 2022) [ 日本語 | English ]

Juniperus chinensis L.






Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

Juniperus L. (ネズミサシ)
Juniperus chinensis L.
Byakushin (ビャクシン, 柏槇), Chinese juniper
ibuki (イブキ, 伊吹), ibukibyakushin (イブキビャクシン), shinpaku (槇柏/真柏)
Lifeform: evergreen, needle-leaved, tall tree
Distribution: central China - Korea - Japan (south to Honshu)
Leaf: dimorphic (scale-shaped and needle-shaped)
var. jacobiana Beiss (タチビャクシン)
var. procunbens (Sieb.) Endl.
Haibyakushin (ハイビャクシン, 這柏槇)
sonare (ソナレ), iwadarenezu (イワダレネズ)
Lifeform: evergreen dwarf shrub
Distribution Kyushu (Tsushima and Oki) - Korea
Habitat: coastsides
Utilization: ground cover for gardening
Synonyms:

Juniperus procumbens (Siebold ex Endl.) Miq.
Sabina chinensis (L.) Antoine var. procumbens (Siebold ex Endl.) Honda
Sabina procumbens (Siebold ex Endl.) Iwata et Kusaka

var. sargentii A. Henry (ミヤマビャクシン)
Lifeform: evergreen shurb
Distribution: Taiwan - Korea - Japan - Sakhalin - southern Kuril
Habitat: rocky sites
Synonyms:

Sabina sargentii (A. Henry) Miyabe et Tatew.
Sabina chinensis (L.) Antoine var. sargentii (A. Henry) W. C. Cheng et L. K. Fu
Sabina chinensis (L.) Antoine ssp. sargentii (A. Henry) Sugim.
Juniperus sargentii (A. Henry) Takeda ex Nakai
Juniperus chinensis L. var. tsukusiensis Masam.

f. globosa Hornib. (タマイブキ): cultivars
Many cultivars
cv. aurea (キンイブキ)
cv. pyramidalis (カイヅカイブキ)

Juniperus chinensis in Japan


ST1 ST2 ST3
[1-3] transplanted at a house garden, N22/W2, North Ward, Sapporo, on March 16 2016 ⇒ bark (樹皮)

索引
var. procumbens transplanted in Kanto District

ST1 ST2
[1/2] transplanted at the Fujisawa Campus of Nihon University, Kanagawa Prefecture, on January 21 2014.

var. sargentii in Hokkaido

ST1 ST2 ST3
ST4 ST5
[1-3] in a foerst at the third station on Mount Apoi (アポイ岳), central southern Hokkaido, on June 15 2016. [4/5] in the alpine plant garden of Shiretoko Museum, Shari Town, eastern Hokkaido, on August 30 2020.

cv. pyramidalis (カイヅカイブキ)

ST1 ST2 ST3
[1-3] in Sumiyoshi Shrine (住吉大社), Osaka, on February 7 2022. The tree is preserved by Osaka City on October 1 1968 (giant tree, 巨木).

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