The juniper is common everywhere in Finland. The habitat has an influence on the shape of the plant: in the archipelago and on fields it grows as a shallow mat and in open fields as a thick bush or often also as a big tree - up to ten metres tall. The
tree-like junipers are protected, in and only the ones higher than seven metres. Some of the sturdy junipers may be in their second millennium. Juniper berries are very impressive, the colour of which varies from light green to blue. The berries have different colours because it takes three years for them to ripen.have found use as medicine, a stimulating drink and flavouring, and durable dishes have been made of juniper wood since times immemorial.

The Lapland stamp well describes the atmosphere in Lapland, the strange light of the polar night, the silence of nature. The artist Launis admits to having deliberately done wrong to the reindeer, a gregarious animal, by setting it alone on top of the fjeld: "Thus the reindeer gives people eyes to look at something they would not otherwise see."