Taxus cuspidata

Taxaceae Taxus cuspidata Siebold & Zucc.

Etymology
Taxus refers to the Latin name for yews.
cuspidata refers to ‘cusped’; indicating its needles have a small tip.

Colloquial Name
Japanese yew

Subordinate Taxa
There exist 2 subordinate taxa for Taxus cuspidata:

Distribution

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TDWG Codes
3, 31, KUR, PRM, SAK, 36, CHM, CHM-HJ, CHM-JL, CHM-LN, CHN, CHN-SA, 38, JAP, JAP-HK, JAP-HN, JAP-KY, JAP-SH, KOR, KOR-NK, KOR-SK

Habitat
The natural habitats for Taxus cuspidata are temperate forests. The natural elevation is unknown. There are no conifers associated with Taxus cuspidata that are known of.

USDA Hardiness zone – 6
Taxus cuspidata is hardy to USDA Zone 6 (Bannister & Neuner, 2001), meaning its frost tolerance lies somewhere in the range of -23.3C (-10F) to -17.8C (0F).

Species Continuity
The population trend for Taxus cuspidata is stable. There are ongoing threats for Taxus cuspidata and they are listed as follows:

• 2 Overexploitation & Resource Use
  • 2.2 Biological Resource Use
  • 2.1 Logging & Wood Harvesting

IUCN Category – LC
According to the IUCN Red List, Taxus cuspidata has been assigned the status of LC(Least Concern). This means that according to the Red List criteria, this species is not qualified as threatened.

Superordinate Taxa
The nearest superordinate taxon for Taxus cuspidata is Taxus. The coordinate taxa for Taxus cuspidata are therefore:

Taxus cuspidata is also placed under Taxaceae.

Cultivars
‘Aurea’, ‘Aristocrat’, ‘Aurescens’, ‘Barnes’, ‘Bobbink’, ‘Bonte Hoek’, ‘Booy’, ‘Brevifolia’, ‘Bright Gold’, ‘Brownii’, ‘Buffumi’, ‘Capitata’, ‘Capitata Aurea’, ‘Cherry Hill’, ‘Cole’s Globe’, ‘Columnaris’, ‘Columnaris Compacta’, ‘Compacta’, ‘Contorta’, ‘Corliss Special’, ‘Densa’, ‘Dwarf Bright Gold’, ‘Depressa’, EMERALD SPREADER, ‘Erecta’, ‘Expansa’, ‘Farmen’, ‘Farmington’, ‘Fastigiata’, ‘Fructo Lutea’, ‘General Greene’, ‘Giraldii’, ‘Golden Jubilee’, ‘Gold Queen’, ‘Green Mountain’, ‘Green Valley’, ‘Green Wave’, ‘Hiti’, ‘Hitii’, ‘Intermedia’, ‘Jeffreyi’, ‘Kelsey’, ‘Low Boy’, ‘Luteobaccata’, ‘Midget’, ‘Minima’, ‘Minuet’, ‘Minute Westons’, ‘Monloo’, ‘Moraine’, ‘Nana’, ‘Nana Aurescens’, ‘Nana Compacta’, ‘Nana Erecta’, ‘Nana Femina’, ‘Nana Grandifolia’, ‘Nana Pyramidalis’, ‘Nigra’, ‘Nutley’, ‘Old Westbury’, ‘Payne’s Spreading’, ‘Prostrata’, ‘Pygmaea’, ‘Robusta’, ‘Rustique’, ‘Sieboldii’, ‘Silver Queen’, ‘Stovekenii’, ‘Straight Hedge’, ‘Stricta’, ‘Thayerae’, ‘Tsugifolia’, ‘Umbraculifera’, ‘Visseri’, ‘Watnong Bright Gold’, ‘White Variegated’, ‘Wilsonii’, ‘Winter Jewel’, ‘Yellow Variegated’