Ball) is a species of juniper, native across the northern Mediterranean Region from southwestern Spain[2] east to western Turkey and Cyprus, growing on coastal sand dunes from sea level up to 75 metres (246 feet) in altitude.

[3][4] A single, isolated tree is found further west, in a cliff in southern Portugal.

The leaves are broad lanceolate, produced in whorls of three, green, 12–20 millimetres (1⁄2–3⁄4 in) long and 2–3 mm broad, with a double white stomatal band split by a green midrib on the inner surface.

The seed cones are berry-like, green ripening in 18 months to orange-red with a variable pink waxy coating; they are spherical, 12–18 mm diameter, and have six fused scales in two whorls, three of the scales with a single seed.

[3][4][6] Despite its distinct morphology with large cones and broad leaves more like those of Juniperus drupacea, it has often been treated as a subspecies of Juniperus oxycedrus,[4] though recent genetic studies[3][7][8] have shown its DNA is distinct from that of J. oxycedrus.