Taxus x media 'Hillii'
Anglojap Yew 'Hillii'
Taxus x media is a hybrid cross between Taxus baccata and Taxus cuspidata. It's common name derives from the cross of both the English Yew and the Japanese Yew. It is one of the smallest and slowest growing of the Yews in the Taxus genus. The plant is toxic and should not be ingested. 'Hillii' is a male plant and so will not produce the red arils like female plants will. It is a slow-growing columnar forming Yew, and has dark green foliage.
Contributed by @riakat
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Full sun to deep shade
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Occasional watering
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Full Frost Hardy: 5F (-15°C)
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Free draining
Common name
Anglojap Yew 'Hillii'
Latin name
Taxus x media 'Hillii'
type
Coniferous tree
family
Taxaceae
ph
5.0 - 8.0 Acid - Neutral
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Light
Full sun to deep shade
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Frost
Full Frost Hardy: 5F (-15°C)
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Soil
Free draining
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Water
Occasional watering
Plant & bloom calendar
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Best time to plant
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When the plant will bloom
full grown dimensions
2.00 M
2.00 M
Taxus x media 'Hillii'
Taxus x media is a hybrid cross between Taxus baccata and Taxus cuspidata. It's common name derives from the cross of both the English Yew and the Japanese Yew. It is one of the smallest and slowest growing of the Yews in the Taxus genus. The plant is toxic and should not be ingested. 'Hillii' is a male plant and so will not produce the red arils like female plants will. It is a slow-growing columnar forming Yew, and has dark green foliage.
Flowering Season
From Mid Winter TO Late Winter
Small nondescript flowers form before the seeds develop and appear in fleshy fruit like structures called arils in the late summer. All parts of the seed are poisonous.
Planting Season (Spring)
From Early Spring TO Mid Spring
Plant out pot grown specimens in soil that has had well rotted compost or manure added and dug in.
Propagate by Seed
From Early Spring TO Mid Spring
Sow seed when it is ripe and keep outside in a cold frame. Generally, only straight species can be raised by seed as Cultivars do not often come true from seed and will experience variation from the mother plant.
Propagate by Semi-ripe Cuttings
From Late Summer TO Mid Autumn
Semi-ripe cuttings are taken from the current years growth from late summer to mid autumn the bottom of the cuttings is hard and soft on the top. With a sharp knife take a cutting of about 14 cms, remove lowest leaves, dip end into rooting hormone, and place round the edge of a pot filled with a suitable compost, water well, they must remain moist till rooted, place under glass but in semi shade.
Planting Season (Autumn)
From Late Summer TO Mid Autumn
Plant out pot grown specimens in soil that has had well rotted compost or manure added and dug in.
Propagate by Softwood Cuttings
From Mid Spring TO Early Summer
Take soft wood cuttings in spring to early summer. Cleanly cut up to a 10cm long stems, remove lower leaves and pinch the tip out, dip the stem into rooting hormone, fill a container/pot with suitable compost, make holes around the edge of it and plant the cuttings, water in well, cover with a polythene bag and place somewhere warm, lake the bag off twice a week to air the cuttings. Keep the cuttings moist until well rooted.Harden off when well rooted and pot on into individual pots increasing the airing to let the leaves to develop. Remove rotten, dying or dead cuttings regularly.
riakat