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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.
Taxus is a genus of coniferous trees or shrubs known as yews in the family Taxaceae. [1] Yews occur around the globe in temperate zones of the northern hemisphere, northernmost in Norway and southernmost in the South Celebes. Some populations exist in tropical highlands. [2] The oldest known fossil species are from the Early Cretaceous. [3]
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.
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 ...
kaya, Japanese torreya, or Japanese nutmeg-yew. southern Japan and to South Korea's Jeju Island: Torreya taxifolia: Florida torreya or gopher wood: restricted habitat within Torreya State Park, along the east bank of the Apalachicola River in the Florida Panhandle and immediately adjacent southernmost Georgia
The Craigends Yew grove from the old ice house. The Craigends Yew (NS4199566134) is an ancient European layering yew (Taxus baccata) growing next to the River Gryffe in what were the grounds of the Craigends Estate, Houston in Renfrewshire, Scotland. Estimates put its age at around 500 to 700 years old and it is one of the largest and oldest ...
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