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Juniperus chinensis var. pfeitzseriana PFITZER JUNIPER
Juniperus chinensis has many cultivars and varieties, some tall and slender, some shrub like and considered ground cover. The pfitzeriana cultivar is ground cover and displays long branches at 45-degree angles with new shoots hanging in a pendulatum manner. It is possible that the pfitzeriana variation is a cross of J. chinensis and J. sabina which were collected by French Botanist David Armand in the 1860s in northern China. In the 1890s a German nursery in Spath introduced the J. chinensis var. pfitzeriana which went on to become one of the most widely planted conifers in the world. These junipers are one of only a few surviving plants from the original early 1930s plantings by Park Superintendent Percy Broell, employee of San Diego philanthropist George Marston. |
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