Notable exceptions include litsea cubeba, vanilla, and juniper berry.

Turpentine was a common additive in cheap gin until the 20th century and gave it its characteristic juniper berry flavor without the need for pricier distillations with aromatic spices and berries.

The Slovak national alcoholic beverage Borovička is also flavoured with juniper berry extract.

The salmon is coated with a spice mixture, which often includes dill, sugars, salt, and spices like juniper berry.

* Juniper berry, the fruit of the juniper

The name gin is derived from either the French genièvre or the Dutch jenever, which both mean " juniper ".

By the mid 17th century, numerous small Dutch and Flemish distillers ( some 400 in Amsterdam alone by 1663 ) had popularized the re-distillation of malt spirit or wine with juniper, anise, caraway, coriander, etc., which were sold in pharmacies and used to treat such medical problems as kidney ailments, lumbago, stomach ailments, gallstones, and gout.

When William of Orange, ruler of the Dutch Republic, occupied the British throne with his wife Mary in what has become known as the Glorious Revolution, gin became vastly more popular, particularly in crude, inferior forms, where it was more likely to be flavoured with turpentine as an alternative to juniper.

Juniper berries are a spice used in a wide variety of culinary dishes and best known for the primary flavoring in gin ( and responsible for gin's name, which is a shortening of the Dutch word for juniper, genever ).

Before the thirteenth century, beer was flavoured with plants such as yarrow, wild rosemary, and bog myrtle, and other ingredients such as juniper berries, aniseed and ginger, which would be combined into a mixture known as gruit and used as hops are now used ; between the thirteenth and the sixteenth century, during which hops took over as the dominant flavouring, beer flavoured with gruit was known as ale, while beer flavoured with hops was known as beer.

The flavouring of the drink comes from a recipe of ten ingredients ( which the bottle's label boasts as " 10 exotic botanicals "): almond, lemon peel, liquorice, juniper berries, orris root, angelica, coriander, cassia, cubeb, and grains of paradise.

Another theory is that Geneva is derived from " Genévrier " which is the French word for " juniper ".

Due to its high rainfall ( 900 – 1200 mm ), mild temperatures and high mountains ( Mount Meron's elevation is 1, 000 – 1, 208 metres ), the upper Galilee region contains some unique flora and fauna: prickly juniper ( Juniperus oxycedrus ), Lebanese cedar ( Cedrus libani ), which grows in a small grove on Mount Meron, cyclamens, paeonias and Rhododendron ponticum which sometimes appears on Meron.

Gin is a spirit which derives its predominant flavour from juniper berries ( Juniperus communis ).

Most notable of these was the juniper which evolved into the Bermuda cedar.

Other large plant species, which were never as numerous as the juniper, had also fared poorly in the presence of invasive species, but have become popular with gardeners and their numbers also have increased in managed areas.

A study of mistletoe in junipers concluded that more juniper berries sprout in stands where mistletoe is present, as the mistletoe attracts berry-eating birds which also eat juniper berries.

Many of the earliest prehistoric people lived in or near juniper forests which furnished them food, fuel, and wood for shelter or utensils.

It is also a popular animal bedding, since it lacks the phenols associated with pine and juniper, which are thought to cause respiratory system ailments in some animals.

Orange, olive, cypress, tamarisk, juniper ( Juniperus oxycedrus ) and arbutus trees grow throughout the island, which, however, is too dry to have any profusion of vegetation.

In the eastern Himalayas in November, Alpine Choughs occur mainly in juniper forests where they feed on juniper berries, differing ecologically from the Red-billed Choughs in the same region and at the same time of year, which feed by digging in the soil of terraced pastures of villages.

Their main food is fruit, which they eat from early summer ( strawberries, mulberries, and serviceberries ) through late summer and fall ( raspberries, blackberries, cherries, and honeysuckle berries ) into late fall and winter ( juniper berries, grapes, crabapples, mountain ash fruits, rose hips, cotoneaster fruits, dogwood berries, and mistletoe berries ) ( MacKinnon and Phillipps 2000, Witmer and Avery 2003 ).

Juniper is named for the low growing juniper shrub which allegedly grows in the boggy spruce forest near Juniper Station.

In the past, houses in the area were constructed from adobe and wood from juniper trees, but today, most constructions are boxy cinderblock constructions, many of which are not painted.

In 1500 B. C., the Ancient Egyptians wrote the Ebers Papyrus, which contains information on over 850 plant medicines, including garlic, juniper, cannabis, castor bean, aloe, and mandrake.

The coast has the Natural Monument site of the Dunas de Artola, one of the few protected natural beaches of the Costa del Sol, which contains marram grass, sea thistle, sea daffodils and shrubs such as caudate juniper.

The pollen is a known allergen, although not as potent as that of the related Juniperus ashei ( Ashe juniper ), which sheds pollen a month earlier.

As the science of distillation advanced from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance period, juniper was one of many botanicals employed by virtue of its perfume, flavour, and purported medicinal properties.

The first hues were red ( iron oxide, hematite, or red ochre ) and black ( manganese dioxide, pyrolusite ), though black from juniper or pine carbons has also been discovered.

In other species the telia are produced directly from the bark of the juniper with no obvious gall formation or swelling such as in G. clarvariforme.

Species of both genera are native to the area where Greek language and culture originated, though as the word " kedros " does not seem to be derived from any of the languages of the Middle East, it has been suggested the word may originally have applied to Greek species of juniper and was later adopted for species now classified in the genus Cedrus because of the similarity of their aromatic woods.

There are some reports that they can be repelled by the scent of wood from juniper and cedar, by lavender, or by other natural oils.

The western portion of the county was used, beginning in the 1870s, for cattle ranching, but the lush grass soon suffered from overgrazing and then fire suppression, allowing the massive expansion of sagebrush, pinyon, and juniper.

Since juniper prefers a more alkaline soil, it is sometimes possible to locate the margins of the ancient sea from a distance by looking for the distinctive light green color of junipers growing on the more alkaline oceanic dolomite deposits between the island hills.

Its name is derived from the fact that at the time the town was established, a large juniper forest, misidentified as cedars by early settlers, was growing at that location.

Depending on taxonomic viewpoint, there are between 50-67 species of juniper, widely distributed throughout the northern hemisphere, from the Arctic, south to tropical Africa in the Old World, and to the mountains of Central America.

A bağlama has three main parts, the bowl ( called tekne ), made from mulberry wood or juniper, beech, spruce or walnut, the spruce sounding board ( göğüs ) and a neck of beech or juniper ( sap ).

Middle slopes from 6500 to 8200 feet ( 2, 000 to 2, 500 meters ) have somewhat denser stands of Piñon pine and Utah juniper.

The women-made baskets could hold heavy loads and were made mainly from yucca or willow leaves or juniper bark.

An adder stone or a bunch of juniper twigs is hung above the nesting place of chickens to protect their eggs from Kikimora.

A gin alembic Spirits from grain, flavoured with berries of the juniper tree, are distilled in Houlle, the Genièvre ( juniper ) of Houlle.