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'Hillii'
Image: Ecker, Michael E. - The Dawes Arboretum
Common name:
Hill Anglo-Japanese yew
Family:
Taxaceae (yew family)
Distribution:
hybrid: selection of Taxus baccata × T. cuspidata
Hardiness:
USDA Zone 5
Life form:
Evergreen shrub
Comments:
A dense-growing, broadly conical, large evergreen shrub that can reach 15-20' high and nearly as wide. Extremely slow-growing with dark, olive green twigs and a stout main leader that has rather thick leathery bark. Leaves are dark glossy green above, dull olive green below. Superiorly hardy selection, predominately male.
Links:
American Conifer Society Database
Locations
1:
CON: CH12
(CH12)
• Accession: D2000-0159.001 • Provenance: Cultivated of Garden Origin
2:
CON: CH12
(CH12)
• Accession: D2000-0159.002 • Provenance: Cultivated of Garden Origin
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Individual