We invite you to listen to Prof. Adam Boratyński’s lecture entitled “Junipers around the Mediterranean.”
The juniper genus evolved before about 50-60 million years ago, under hot and dry climate conditions. Today, about 100 taxa of junipers are known, grouped into three sections that are the three oldest clades in molecular analysis. Junipers are light-demanding, drought-tolerant plants, with individual species adapted to broad range of temperatures. There are 20 species and subspecies of junipers around the Mediterranean, representing all 3 sections.
