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§1 Plant
Taxus cuspidata Siebold & Zucc.
vernacular Japanese yew — species · Taxaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Gymnosperm
- Family
- Taxaceae Gray
- Genus
- Taxus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 15 counties across 5 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- High
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -28 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 120 min.
- Precipitation
- 35–50 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.3–7.8
- Root depth
- 16 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 50 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 30 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Dense
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Red
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- Moderate
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- None
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 7,400
- Propagation
- cuttings, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 15 counties across 5 states/territories.
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 3 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/TACU ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5284524 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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