{"id":18473,"count":1,"description":"Junipers are coniferous plants in the genus Juniperus (\u00a0\/d\u0292u\u02d0\u02c8n\u026ap\u0259r\u0259s\/) of the cypress family Cupressaceae. Depending on taxonomic viewpoint, there are between 50-67 species of juniper, widely distributed throughout the northern hemisphere, from the Arctic, south to tropical Africa in the Old World, and to the mountains of Central America.\nJunipers vary in size and shape from tall trees, 20\u201340 m tall, to columnar or low spreading shrubs with long trailing branches. They are evergreen with needle-like and\/or scale-like leaves. They can be either monoecious or dioecious. The female seed cones are very distinctive, with fleshy, fruit-like coalescing scales which fuse together to form a \"berry\"-like structure, 4\u201327\u00a0mm long, with 1-12 unwinged, hard-shelled seeds. In some species these \"berries\" are red-brown or orange but in most they are blue; they are often aromatic and can be used as a spice. The seed maturation time varies between species from 6\u201318 months after pollination. The male...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/juniper\/","name":"Juniper","slug":"juniper","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/18473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=18473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}