Taxon

Taxus × media 'Smokestack'

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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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