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Common names in English include yew plum pine, [2] Buddhist pine, fern pine and Japanese yew. [3] Kusamaki ( クサマキ ) and inumaki ( 犬槇 ) are Japanese names for this tree. In China, it is known as luóhàn sōng ( 羅漢松 ), which literally means " arhat pine".
It is an evergreen tree or large shrub growing to 10–18 m tall, with a trunk up to 60 cm diameter. The leaves are lanceolate, flat, dark green, 1–3 cm long and 2–3 mm broad, arranged spirally on the stem, but with the leaf bases twisted to align the leaves in two flattish rows either side of the stem except on erect leading shoots where the spiral arrangement is more obvious.
Evidence based on growth rates and archaeological work of surrounding structures suggests the oldest yews, such as the Fortingall Yew in Perthshire, Scotland, may be in the range of 2,000 years, [24] [25] [26] placing them among the oldest plants in Europe. One characteristic contributing to yews' longevity is that, unlike most other trees ...
Japanese yew may refer to: Taxus cuspidata , a species of yew native to Japan, Korea, and Manchuria and cultivated as an ornamental plant Podocarpus macrophyllus , a yew-like conifer native to southern Japan and southern and eastern China also cultivated as an ornamental plant
Common Yew Taxus Baccata: Henryków Lubański, Lower Silesia, Poland: Oldest tree in Poland. The age of the tree was estimated based on the trunk circumference and growth rate assessed by taking a core from an undamaged part of the trunk. If the trunk is the result of the fusion of two or three trunks, its age may be younger. [64] Algarrobo ...
Taxus × media, also referred to as the Hybrid yew, Anglo-Japanese yew, or Anglojap yew is a conifer (more specifically, a yew) created by the hybridization of English yew Taxus baccata and Japanese yew Taxus cuspidata. [1] [2] This hybridization is thought to have been performed by the Massachusetts-based horticulturalist T.D. Hatfield in the ...
Foliage of Irish yew; note the leaves spreading all round the erect shoots. Yews are widely used in landscaping and ornamental horticulture. Over 400 cultivars of yews have been named, the vast majority of these being derived from European yew (Taxus baccata) or Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata). The hybrid between these two species is Taxus × media.
Cephalotaxus harringtonii, commonly known as Korean plum yew, [2] Japanese plum-yew, [3] Harrington's cephalotaxus, [4] or cowtail pine, is a species of coniferous shrub or small tree in the family Taxaceae. It is native to Japan, but is occasionally utilised in western gardens and several cultivars exist for these purposes.