English Yew
Taxus baccata 'Overeynderi'
Taxaceae
Growth habit
Shrub
Perennation
Perennial
Source of plant
Princeton Nurseries, Cornell Botanic Gardens
Description
Normally of broad, shrubby habit, but always trimmed to a pyramid in the nursery, becoming 3 to 5 m tall with regularly arranged branches and numerous twigs; needles to 20 mm long, 2 mm wide, acute, somewhat bowed, dark green above, dull green beneath.
USDA Hardiness Zone
6
Special characteristics
winter interest, intermediate conifer