{"id":1365799,"date":"2011-04-01T11:15:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T11:15:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:48:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T13:18:29","slug":"taxus-canadensis","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/taxus-canadensis\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxus canadensis (USA\/ Canada)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Taxus<\/i> canadensis<\/i> Marshall<\/span><\/a>, Arbust. Amer. 150 1785<\/i>. (syn: Taxus<\/i> baccata<\/i> var. adpressa<\/i> Carri\u00e8re<\/span><\/a>; Taxus<\/i> baccata<\/i> var. canadensis<\/i> (Marshall) A.Gray<\/span><\/a>; Taxus<\/i> baccata<\/i> subsp. canadensis<\/i> (Marshall) Pilg.<\/span><\/a>; Taxus<\/i> baccata<\/i> var. minor<\/i> Michx.<\/span><\/a>; Taxus<\/i> baccata<\/i> var. procumbens<\/i> Loudon<\/span><\/a>; Taxus<\/i> canadensis<\/i> var. adpressa<\/i> (Carri\u00e8re) Spjut<\/span><\/a>; Taxus<\/i> canadensis<\/i> var. minor<\/i> (Michx.) Spjut<\/span><\/a>; Taxus<\/i> minor<\/i> (Michx.) Britton ex Small & Vail<\/span><\/a>; Taxus<\/i> minor<\/i> (Michx.) Britton<\/span><\/a>; Taxus<\/i> procumbens<\/i> Lodd. ex Loudon<\/span><\/a>);<\/div>\n
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Taxus canadensis<\/i> (Canadian Yew<\/b>) is a conifer<\/span><\/a> native to central and eastern <\/span>North America<\/span><\/a>, thriving in swampy woods, ravines, riverbanks and on lake shores<\/span>. Locally called simply “Yew”, this species is also referred to as American Yew<\/b> or Ground-hemlock<\/b>.
\nIt is usually a sprawling <\/span>shrub<\/span><\/a>, rarely exceeding 2.5 m tall. It sometimes forms strong upright central leaders, but these cannot be formed from spreading branches, only from the original leader of the seedling plant. The shrub has thin scaly brown <\/span>bark<\/span><\/a>. The <\/span>leaves<\/span><\/a> are lanceolate, flat, dark green, 1\u20132.5\u00a0cm long and 1.5\u00a0mm broad, arranged in two flat rows either side of the branch.
\n<\/span>The <\/span>seed cones<\/span><\/a> are highly modified, each cone containing a single <\/span>seed<\/span><\/a> partly surrounded by a modified scale which develops into a soft, bright red <\/span>berry<\/span><\/a>-like structure called an <\/span>aril<\/span><\/a>, open at the end. The seeds are eaten by <\/span>thrushes<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>waxwings<\/span><\/a> and other <\/span>birds<\/span><\/a>, which disperse the hard seeds undamaged in their droppings. The male cones are globose, 3\u00a0mm diameter. It is a <\/span>monoecious<\/span><\/a> plant \u2013 one of the few in the genus.
\n<\/span>(From Wikipedia<\/a>\u00a0on 12.10.13)
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\nTaxus canadensis from Brampton, Canada-GS05112022-1<\/a>: 4 very high res. images.
\nSharing Taxus canadensis<\/em>, a native evergreen shrub here often grown as hedge,<\/span> with narrower leaves and aril somewhat broader than our species.<\/span> Photographed from Brampton,<\/span> grown as hedge,<\/span> 4-11-2022.<\/p>\n

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\nplant for id – efloraofindia | Google Groups<\/span><\/a>:
\nPlease help me in identifying this plant.
\nPlace : Brooklyn Botanical Garden (New York, USA)<\/span>
\nTime: 17th April, 2001<\/span>
\nA small plant about 2 ft high and spreading on the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Should be Taxus sp.<\/p>\n

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Looking at the habit, T. canadensis<\/em><\/p>\n

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Could be comparing with net image!
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SK1691 02 Jan 2019<\/a> : 10 posts by 4 authors. 3 very high res. images.
\nLocation : Jackson Height,\u00a0New\u00a0York, USA<\/span>
\nDate : 24 October 2013
\nAltitude \u00a025 m.<\/span>
\nHabit : Cultivated<\/span>
\nWhich\u00a0Taxus<\/em>\u00a0sp. ?<\/p>\n

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The fruit reminds me of the english yew. a\u00a0taxus<\/em>. may be\u00a0taxus baccata<\/em>. only the person who planted it would know if it came with a tag from the nursery\u00a0or we did an extensive photography for id purposes. so need more pictures. the red aril is edible, but the black seed (and all parts of the yew) are highly toxic<\/p>\n

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It was on a roadside.<\/p>\n

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i hope you took lots of pictures of the whole tree<\/p>\n

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It was just a beginning\u00a0and ignorant about the aspects of plant photography then, so not many pictures of the plant.<\/p>\n

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…, There is no shame in admitting ignorance when one is first learning.
\nI have been learning for only 8 years and I\u00a0only now realize the importance of taking an excessive amount of images – the entire plant, leaf front, leaf back. bloom, back of bloom, leaf arrangement along the stem, the margin of the leaf, venation, seed pod, etc. Oh, so many images needed to obtain an identification. The photo of the Yew berry is exquisite. Be proud of what you have done and no need to apologize for what you have not done.<\/p>\n

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I guess I have improved a bit with the guidance and suggestions from you and other senior members but still a long way to go.<\/p>\n

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Taxus canadensis\u00a0<\/i>Marshall ??<\/p>\n

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Yes, possible as per\u00a0Singh ji’s recent post<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Yes Taxus canadensis<\/em> is possible as bush appears monoecious.<\/p>\n

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Taxus canadensis Marshall, Arbust. Amer. 150 1785. (syn: Taxus baccata var. adpressa Carri\u00e8re; Taxus baccata var. canadensis (Marshall) A.Gray; Taxus baccata subsp. canadensis (Marshall) Pilg.; Taxus baccata var. minor Michx.; Taxus baccata var. procumbens Loudon; Taxus canadensis var. adpressa (Carri\u00e8re) Spjut; Taxus canadensis var. minor (Michx.) Spjut; Taxus minor (Michx.)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[5516],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1365799","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-taxus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1365799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1365799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1365799"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1365799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}