Jess, I think the height record for Juniperus communis, you have found, is in the right height class. "Suomen puut ja pensaat" (="Finland's trees and shrubs") by Henry Väre and Heikki Kiuru says the tallest specimen in Finland is 16.8 metres tall. It is located in Sääksjärvi in Mäntsälä. Junipers taller than 10 metres are very rare.
- Kouta On Nov 16, 11:04 pm, Jess Riddle <[email protected]> wrote: > Kouta, > > I haven't paid that much attention to any of the accounts of tall var > communis I've read; they generally lack detail in terms of both > measurement and location. I think the tallest I've read about was 50 > or 55' somewhere around the Baltic Sea. > > Jess > > On 11/16/09, Kouta Räsänen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Jess, > > > And how tall is the tallest J. communis var. communis of which you are > > aware? Where is it growing? > > > That 2000 year old juniper has been mentioned also by Jalas (1958) in > > Finnish. Though, I am little bit suspicious about that, too. I will > > search if I am able to find more about it. > > > An addition to the language issue: My brother - a scientist in a > > finnish university - said to me that more than half of scientific > > papers in his department are published only in Finnish. And Finland is > > a highly developed country. The proportion is supposedly much lower in > > countries like Russia or China. > > > - Kouta > > > -- > > Eastern Native Tree Societyhttp://www.nativetreesociety.org > > Send email to [email protected] > > Visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en > > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
