juniperus communis flower

[BubikolRamios]

Do I have male and female flowers on same plant here ? Comparing to images here: https://www.blumeninschwaben.de/Hauptgr ... adel.htm#2
assuming Zapfen means form of flower

[Anagallis]

Yes, there are both. "Zapfen" is the German word for "cone". A "Zapfen" is +- an inflorescence with multiple or many flowers of the same sex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conifer_cone

[BubikolRamios]

even according to german wiki, male and female plants are separated: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeiner_Wacholder
?

[Anagallis]

Never checked these plants. Maybe the female structures are sterile.

[abeja]

I'm not sure if I'm seeing female seed cones - or if these structures are still (almost) closed male pollen cones?
Can you keep an eye on this plant to see how the flowers develop?

When I search for “Juniperus communis dioecious monoecious,” I find this:

Juniperus communis is usually dioecious, occasionally monoecious (Ottley 1909); Renner (1905) noted hermaphrodite strobili but these have not been reported elsewhere.

Biological Flora of the British Isles: Juniperus communis L. P. A. THOMAS, M. EL-BARGHATHI, A. POLWART (2007)
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley ... 07.01308.x

Here are some additional close-up photos of the cones (strobuli). Both the male pollen cones and the female cones feature triangular structures.
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/u ... -15-12.jpg (male)
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/u ... male-1.jpg (female)

https://www.conifers.org/cu/Juniperus_communis.php

Pollen cones axillary, solitary, 1-3 per leaf whorl, subglobose to ellipsoid, 3-5 mm long with 9-12 triangular microsporophylls. Seed cones axillary, nearly sessile, maturing in 18 months, at maturity globose, 4-13 mm diameter, with 1-2 whorls of 3 completely fused bract-scale complexes, sutures not visible ...

This "bract-scale complexes" are in https://www.blumeninschwaben.de/Hauptgr ... adel.htm#3 called "Zapfenschuppen" (3 Zapfenschuppen) . But there can be another whorl of three, so 2x3 .