Himalayan Juniper

• High Mountains
• High Himal & Trans-Himalaya

Flowers inMay, June

• 01Juniper grows flat against the ground so the wind cannot tear it.
• 02A shrub the size of a child may already be older than that child’s grandparents.

• Taking too much

  How serious3/5

  Cutting for incense takes decades of growth in a single afternoon, because juniper adds so little wood each year.

• Take only what regrows

  Many Nepali medicine plants are disappearing because every last one gets dug up. There is a way to gather that leaves the plant alive.

Scientific name

Juniperus indica

Family

Cupressaceae