Taxus baccata - 150-160cm - 30lt Callicarpa blue-purple flowers

blue-purple flowers

Fruit capsules split and open to reveal orange seed covers

evergreen shrub with narrow

flowering shrub with wonderful colourful foliage

bright green in spring

Taxus baccata - 150-160cm - 30lt Callicarpa blue-purple flowersTaxus baccata, or Common Yew, is a long lived, medium sized, bushy evergreen tree of pyramidal habit, with leathery, flat needled, light to dark green foliage. Inconspicuous flowers bloom in spring and are followed by very ornamental, red, berry like fruits on female plants in autumn. Fruits are attractive to birds. Common Yew grows best in evenly moist, fertile, sandy, loamy, well drained soil in full sun or partial shade, but it can adapt to a wide