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Juniperus procera
Also called African Pencil Cedar, East African Cedar, East African Juniper, Kenya Cedar
A large conifer of the cypress family, native to high mountain forests across East and northeast Africa and southwest Arabia, reaching 20 to 25 m tall. It is the only juniper found south of the equator, and it is grown mainly for its valued timber.
Juniperus procera (known by the common English names African juniper, African pencil-cedar, East African juniper, East African cedar, and Kenya cedar) is a coniferous tree native to mountainous areas in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. It is a characteristic tree of the Afromontane flora.
Juniperus procera is native to the Arabian Peninsula (in Saudi Arabia and Yemen), and northeastern, eastern, west-central, and south tropical Africa (in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe).
It is an important timber tree, used for building houses, poles, and furniture. The bark is used for beehives.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Juniperus procera by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
