General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Tree
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Partial or Dappled Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 6a -23.3 °C (-10 °F) to -20.6 °C (-5 °F)
Plant Height: 25 to 60 feet
Plant Spread: 15 to 25 feet
Leaves: Evergreen
Needled
Fruit: Showy
Edible to birds
Other: Female yews produce attractive red, berry-like fruits, each containing a single seed surrounded by a fleshy red aril.
Underground structures: Taproot
Suitable Locations: Topiary
Uses: Windbreak or Hedge
Wildlife Attractant: Birds
Resistances: Drought tolerant
Toxicity: Other: All parts of the plant are poisonous if ingested.
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Pollinators: Wind
Conservation status: Least Concern (LC)

Conservation status:
Conservation status: Least Concern
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Common names
  • Common Yew
  • English Yew
  • European Yew

Photo Gallery
Location: Monção, Portugal
Date: 2023-06-07
Location: Hampton Court Palace!
Date: 2012-07-18
very old shaped yews on guard at Hampton Court.

Date: 2021-08-18
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2015-03-01

Date: 1800-05
illustration by P. J. Redouté from Duhamel's 'Traité des arbres
Location: Bristol, England from Paul Meyer, once director of the Morris Arboretum in Philadelphia, PA
Date: summer of 2022
a full-grown, centuries old English Yew tree
Location: Willow Valley Communities, Lakes Campus, Willow Street, Pennsylvania
Date: 2019-11-05
Location: Jardin des Serres de la Madone, Menton, France
Location: Jenkins Arboretum in Berwyn, Pennsylvania
Date: 2020-01-12
foliage
Location: Monção, Portugal
Date: 2023-06-07
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2017-09-06
couple of berries on a quartz crystal

Date: 2021-08-18
Location: Hampton Court Palace!
Date: 2012-07-18
One of the old shaped yew's at Hampton Court!
Location: Jenkins Arboretum in Berwyn, Pennsylvania
Date: 2020-01-12
close-up of needles

photo credit: H. Zell
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor, MI
Date: 2014-07-06
Bonsai example
Location: Abbey gardens, Winchester, Hampshire, England.
Date: 2012-03-24
Old yews.
Location: Hampton Court Palace!
Date: 2012-07-18
Hampton Ciurt yew.
Location: Jenkins Arboretum in Berwyn, Pennsylvania
Date: 2020-01-12
one labeled specimen at the arboretum
Location: Jenkins Arboretum in Berwyn, Pennsylvania
Date: 2020-01-12
trunks of a shrub form

photo credit: H. Zell

Date: 2021-08-18
Capsule at various stages in growth
Location: Exbury Gardens, Hampshire, England.
Date: 2012-03-27
Yew hedge.
Location: Warkworth, Northumberland, UK
Date: 2010-07-05
Churchyards are one of the best places to see really old yew tree
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Comments:
  • Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Jan 13, 2020 10:53 AM concerning plant:
    Until January of 2020, I never saw a straight species of English Yew. I unexpectantly came upon one specimen that was a large, wide-spreading shrub at Jenkins Arboretum in southeast Pennsylvania, in a sheltered location among some Rhododendrons in USDA Zone 6b. It is native to Europe, western Asia, and far North Africa where it is usually a pyramidal tree about 30 to 85 feet high, though it can be a wide-spreading large shrub there also.
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