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Taxus x media, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
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#1268 most planted

Taxus x media

Hybrid yew · also Intermediate yew, Anglo-Japanese yew, Anglojap yew

SpreadingEvergreen
74
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
4
cities
25 in
median trunk (63 cm, 71 measured)
23 yr
median age (74% have a planting date)

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Taxus x media is an artificial hybrid yew, created in the early 1900s from English yew and Japanese yew. It is grown in many shrubby, often wide-spreading, cultivars.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Boston · United States
    5423 yr29 in
  2. Vancouver · Canada
    15—11 in
  3. Paris · France
    4—10 in
  4. Amsterdam · Netherlands
    1——

Traits

Form
Spreading
Foliage
Evergreen

Trunk diameters across every city: median 25 in, mean 25 in, 90th percentile 40 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.

Other Taxus in the catalogue

7 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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