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