Help me identify this Juniper

[leus]

Hello friends. It happens that I have this thing in my entryway:

It looks like a Juniper to me, but I'd like to know which kind. Here's a closeup:

And here's a closeup of the seed... pods? cones?. Incidentally, I grabbed a bunch of them and started extracting the seeds - I have a LOT of seeds, but I've read that it's not really worth it since it is easier to just cut a branch and plant it.


Any help is welcome!

 

[skot]

Thuja occidentalis

 

[Shibui]

Flat foliage pads is either Thuja or Chamaecyparis. Thuja was my initial impression but I don't know them well enough to ID to species level.
Both have many different cultivars, sometimes very different to the original species.
Cones are usually the key defining feature.

 

[TN_Jim]

Thuja

 

[TN_Jim]

location??

 

[Crazy Diamond]

Is not Thuja occidentalis, is Platycladus orientalis before known as Thuja orientalis, very easy to identify by his cones

 

[Crazy Diamond]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platycladus

 

[leus]

Wow, Thuja? I know nothing about Junipers then

This tree is located in Santiago, Chile. Thank you for your replies!

Edit: according to the link, it definitely is a Platycladus Orientalis, or Chinese Thuja. Is it worth to get its seeds, then?

 

[Paradox]

Yea its not a juniper. Very common landscape plant around here for hedges

 

[DazzDeBonsai]

Hello friends. It happens that I have this thing in my entryway:
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It looks like a Juniper to me, but I'd like to know which kind. Here's a closeup:
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And here's a closeup of the seed... pods? cones?. Incidentally, I grabbed a bunch of them and started extracting the seeds - I have a LOT of seeds, but I've read that it's not really worth it since it is easier to just cut a branch and plant it.
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Any help is welcome!

I managed to turn mine into a bonsai over +/- 7 years.. not an easy specimen to work with but very hardy and will survive most of the apocalypse