Foliage Notes:
Green (Bright green foliage is evergreen, with soft, twisted needles; newly emerging growth in the spring is an even brighter yellow-green)
Fruit Notes:
Red;brown (Female plants have a fleshy, red aril that surrounds a hard, brown nutlet; the aril is the only part of Taxus that is not poisonous)
Soil Notes:
Widely adapted to different soils, except those that are poorly drained
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Twisted needles mostly 2-ranked (Taxus cuspidata is less 2-ranked). Blunt bud scales (T. cuspidata has more pointed bud scales). First and second year stems are olive colored (T. cuspidata stems turn brown the second year).
