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Plant: Hicksii - Yew
Yew · Taxus x media 'Hicksii'
Size: 5 gal
Light
Mature size
More about this plant
A tall anglojap yew growing up to twenty feet, with pointed olive to dark green needles and lighter green undersides, long used for clipped hedges and screens. Female plants carry red fleshy cup like arils in fall that songbirds take. It grows slowly in sun or shade on loam or sand and must have good drainage, since yews do not tolerate wet conditions, but it takes drought, dry soil, heavy shade, rabbits and urban conditions. Every part except the fleshy aril is highly poisonous.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 20 ft tall and 15 ft wide
- Hardy in USDA zones 4-7
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
A tall anglojap yew growing up to twenty feet, with pointed olive to dark green needles and lighter green undersides, long used for clipped hedges and screens. Female plants carry red fleshy cup like arils in fall that songbirds take. It grows slowly in sun or shade on loam or sand and must have good drainage, since yews do not tolerate wet conditions, but it takes drought, dry soil, heavy shade, rabbits and urban conditions. Every part except the fleshy aril is highly poisonous.
- Foliage
- Pointed needled evergreen foliage, olive to dark green, with lighter green undersides.
- Fruit
- A red, fleshy, cup like aril that partially surrounds a single seed, showy in fall.
- Bark & stems
- The brown bark has a scaly surface. The stem stays green for two years before turning brown.
- Pruning
- Tolerates even the most severe pruning.
- Native range
- Artificial hybrid of English Yew and Japanese Yew
