Hybrid Yew, Anglojapanese Yew               TAKS-us MEE-di-a

• Conifer, evergreen shrub, variable in height, 3-20 ft (0.9-6 m), (depending upon cultivar), spreading, shoots olive green, often reddish on the sunny side.   Needles similar to those of T. cuspidata.  Seeds about 1 cm, fruit (aril) scarlet.  
• Sun or shade, moist, well-drained soil.
• Hardy to USDA Zone 4     A hybrid of T. baccata × T. cuspidata, developed in Wellesley, Massachusetts, by T. D. Hatfield around 1900.
• A number of cultivars, including:
  • 'Bean Pole' - very columnar, female
  • 'Brownii' - dense, globose or broader habit
  • 'Dark Green Spreader' - dark green foliage, compact, 4 ft tall, greater width, resistant to "winter burn"
  • 'Densiformis' - female, dense, rounded, greenish-brown in winter
  • 'Hicksii' - probably the most common, it is narrowly columnar, branches ascending, often narrower at the base than the peak.  A female clone, but male clones also sold under this name.
  • 'Tauntonii' ('Taunton') - spreading, resistant to "winter burn" and summer heat
  • 'Wardii' - wide-spreading, dense, flat-topped, dark green, female
• Oregon State Univ. campus: north side of Burt Hall (computer building), next to parking lot ('Hicksii').