Common yew
Taxus baccata
In Dutch: Taxus
TreesCollection: Native species
Properties
- Height
- 3 to 18 m
- Spread
- 8 to 12 m
- Full grown after
- 20 to 50 years
- Sun
- Full sun to full shade
- Soil
- Any soil that drains well
- Water
- Average
- Maintenance
- Low: no pruning needed
- Flowers
- March to May, yellow, inconspicuous
- For bees
- Yes: pollen, March to May
- Hay fever
- Not or weakly allergenic
- Leaves
- Stay green
- Hardy
- Yes
- Native
- Yes
- Poisonous
- Yes: everything except the red berry flesh
- Pricks or stings
- No
- Price, young
- About €5 to €11 each, 40-60 cm, in a pot or with a root ball
- Price, grown
- About €43 to €80 each, 150-200 cm, with a root ball
Through the year
- Leaf
- all year
- Flower
- March to May
- Fruit
- September to October