LET’S KNOW SOME TREES UW 
Casual observation might confuse California juniper with western 
juniper and the wood of the two trees can hardly be distinguished. 
However, the fact that California juniper is a tree of the lower 
Figure 12.—Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) 
ranges serves to distinguish it roughly from its more ambitious 
neighbor. As a forest tree, California juniper is specially noticeable 
for its ability to thrive on low, desert slopes and plains, where it 
keeps company with yuccas, pifion, and Sabine pines. It is not 
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