Help me identify this Juniper

leus

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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!
 

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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.
 

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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?
 

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Yea its not a juniper. Very common landscape plant around here for hedges
 
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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:
View attachment 431310
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.
View attachment 431311

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
 

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