African Juniper

Also known as East African Cedar, African Cedar, East African Juniper

African junipers dominate high-altitude Afromontane canopy forests, growing into massive evergreen trees with peeling shreddy bark and dense aromatic foliage. Their blue-black seed cones feed native birds and mammals, which disperse the seeds across rugged montane slopes. Highly prized for decay-resistant wood, old-growth stands have suffered heavy logging yet remain vital anchor trees in fragile highland watersheds.