Scientific name: Taxus baccata ‘Repandens’

Common name:  dwarf English yew

Family name: Taxaceae

Useful cultivars and selections:

USDA hardiness zone: 5

Mature height and spread: 0.4-0.7m tall, 1.5-2m wide

Form: Arching, spreading

Water use: low

Soil requirements: well-drained. Acidic. Humus

Leaf arrangement: needle-like. Alternate.

Fall colour: none

Flower/cone/fruit description: red drupe.

Limitations: poisonous

Suitable uses: solid ground cover. Very tolerant. Doesn’t need pruning.

Quick ID: conifer. Shrub. Europe. Needle-like. Alternate. Dark green on top, bluish underneath. Mostly disticusly arrangd (2 ranks, different tan fastigiata).

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