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Taxus × media 'Smokestack'
Common name:
Smokestack Anglo-Japanese yew
Family:
Taxaceae (yew family)
Distribution:
hybrid: selection of Taxus baccata × T. cuspidata
Hardiness:
USDA Zone 5
Life form:
Evergreen shrub
Comments:
This is an upright, slow-growing evergreen selection with ascending branches. Its habit resembles a smokestack, therefore the name. It has two-ranked, flat, lustrous dark green needles and is a male selection so no fleshy, red, aril covered seed cones are produced. Sources say it grows 6-12' tall and 2-4' wide.
Links:
American Conifer Society Database
•
Missouri Botanical Garden Kemper Center- Plant Finder
Locations
1:
CON: CM12
(CM12)
• Accession: D2001-1468.001 • Provenance: Cultivated of Garden Origin
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Individual