| Description | An English Yew cultivar with bright yellow foliage in the spring changing to green. |
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| Pronunciation | (TAKS-us)(ba-KA-tah) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Shrubs Coniferous |
| Hardiness Zone | (5)6-8 |
| Sunlight | full, tolerates some shade, not as full and dense as the shade gets deeper |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Flowers | not ornamental |
| Fruit | forms a red to red orange fleshy fruit |
| Leaves | needles yellow in the spring, flat, dark green, yellow green on the underside, two ranked |
| Dimensions | 12 by 8 feet, (H-S), easily kept smaller by pruning |
| Maintenance | Very prunable and easily kept to size. Has at least two growth flushes per season. Prune after the new growth hardens. Will recover slowly from hard pruning into old wood |
| Native Site | Species native to Europe, Atlas Mountains, Asia Minor and Caucauses. |
| Cultivar Origin | Poland |
| Misc Facts | Genus name is an old Latin name for yews. Specific epithet means fruit-bearing in reference to the showy red arils. |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr), 144-Missouri Botanical Gardens web site (www.missouribotanicalgarden.org) |
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