This Dense Anglo-Japanese Yew is an old cultivar at least from the 1960's, but probably older than that, which is still the most common cultivar that I have seen planted in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic Regions of the USA. It is supposed to be a female cultivar that bears the red fleshed seeds, but oftentimes I don't see any on many plants from lack of any male plants being around. Its form is dense with good foliage where the needles are more spiral around the twigs like the English Yew parent. It is sold by most any conventional nursery. Unfortunately, like just about all bush yews, it is poorly sheared into green lumps by most homeowners or landscape companies. If one uses hand pruners to cut deeply into the plant, not below the green zone into any brown unneedled wood, one can have a lovely, still roundish form that is not too big, and without shearing.

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