Anglojap Yew

Growth habit

Shrub

Perennation

Long-lived polycarpic perennial

Location

Jackson Grove

Source of plant

Horton Nurseries, Cornell Botanic Gardens

Description

Female form of quite dense and compact habit, upright, about 3.5 m tall, 2.5 m wide in twenty years; needles very densely arranged, 18 to 20 mm long, about 2.5 mm wide, sharply acuminate, black-green above, lighter beneath, fruting abundantly on 3- to 4-year-old plants (DS 8). Free-fruiting female form, erect and dense, taller than wide, a twenty-year-old plant being 12' tall, 9' wide; very dark green needles (DS 9).

USDA Hardiness Zone

5

Special characteristics

winter interest, growth habit, fruiting characteristics, dwarf conifer