Juniperus foetidissima

Foetid juniper or stinky juniper is in the cypress or Cupressaceae family and is native to southeastern Europe and Western Asia, from southern Albania and northern Greece, southern Macedonia, across Turkey to Syria and the Lebanon, the Caucasus Mountains, the Alborz Mountains of northern Iran, and east to southwestern Turkmenistan. There is also an isolated population in the Crimea.

• It is a medium-sized tree, reaching 25 m tall, with a broadly rounded or conical crown.
• Adult leaves are small (2–3 mm long) scale-like, in desiccate pairs (occasionally whorls of 3), and tight against the branches, green to gray-green; juvenile leaves (on young seedlings only) are needle-like, 8–10 mm long.
• Species is largely dioecious; female cones are berry-like, 8–13 mm in diameter, blue-black covered in a whitish waxy bloom, maturing in 18 months; male cones are 2–3.5 mm long.