Taxus cuspidata
Habit | tree
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Height: | ⇕ | 50 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 50. |
Width: | ⇔ | 20 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 20. |
Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
Exposure: | ☼ | sun |
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Features: | ✓ | evergreen |
USDA Zones: | 4 to 9 |
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Taxus wallichiana (syn. Taxus baccata subsp. wallichiana, commonly known as Himalayan Yew) is a species of yew, native to the Himalaya from Afghanistan east to western Yunnan in southwestern China, at altitudes from 2,000–3,500 m.[1][2]
It is a medium-sized evergreen coniferous tree growing to 20 m tall, similar to Taxus baccata and sometimes treated as a subspecies of it. The shoots are green at first, becoming brown after three or four years. The leaves are thin, flat, slightly falcate (sickle-shaped), 1.5–2.7 cm long and 2 mm broad, with a softly mucronate apex; they are arranged spirally on the shoots but twisted at the base to appear in two horizontal ranks on all except for erect lead shoots. It is dioecious, with the male and female cones on separate plants; the seed cone is highly modified, berry-like, with a single scale developing into a soft, juicy red aril 1 cm diameter, containing a single dark brown seed 7 mm long. The pollen cones are globose, 4 mm diameter, produced on the undersides of the shoots in early spring.[2]
ExpandRead about Taxus cuspidata in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Species
Similar plants occurring further east through China to Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines are included in Taxus wallichiana as T. wallichiana var. chinensis (Pilger) Florin by some authors,[3] but are more often treated as a separate species Taxus chinensis.[1][2]
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 Farjon, A. (1998). World Checklist and Bibliography of Conifers. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ISBN 1-900347-54-7.
- ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 2.2 Rushforth, K. (1987). Conifers. Helm ISBN 0-7470-2801-X.
- ↑ Flora of China: Taxus wallichiana