"Juniperus foetidissima", with common names foetid juniper or stinking juniper, is a juniper tree species in the Cupressaceae family. It is the "National tree of Turkmenistan" respectively.

Distribution:

The tree is native to south-eastern 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 south-western Turkmenistan.

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