Forum Flora Germanica

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

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

even according to german wiki, male and female plants are separated: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeiner_Wacholder
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Never checked these plants. Maybe the female structures are sterile.

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 .

After looking at some plants today I take back what I said: There are only male cones on the image. The linked image from Flora-De is very misleading. It does show female cones, but they are not the large brown ovoid structures at the end of the twigs (= young leaves) but the much smaller green globes in the leaf axils below them. Also, there are indeed some plants that bear fruits and male cones, but I did not see any that have male and female flowers at the same time.

Thomas has removed the confusing image and marked the leaf buds and the female cones on the other one.
https://www.blumeninschwaben.de/Hauptgr ... adel.htm#3

blattknospen (leaf buds)

Now you invented a very nice new word ... "Knopfe" ...
Maybe we should use it: if the bud (Knospe) looks like a button (Knopf), we could call it "Knopfe".
Just a stipulative definition.
(Joking, no offence )

Heh, we should, here we use knof (as short of knopf) a lot, and indeed one day occured to me knof must be really knopf (-:, a lot. Instead of original slovenian word gumb. Repaired my mistake one post before.

While, have no idea where to connect Knospe (-: