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Cephalotaxus fortunei (Fortune's plum yew)

Synonyms: Cephalotaxus fortunei var. pendula; Taxus fortunei (homotypic)
Language: Chi; Chinese; Fre; Ger; Hrv, Srp; Hun; Ita; Rus

Wikipedia Abstract

Cephalotaxus fortunei, commonly called the Chinese plum-yew, simply plum yew, Chinese cowtail pine or in Chinese as san jian shan (Chinese: 三尖杉; pinyin: sǎnjiānshān), is a coniferous shrub or small tree in the plum yew family. It is native to northern Burma and China, but is sometimes grown in western gardens where it has been in cultivation since 1848.
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Infraspecies

Cephalotaxus fortunei var. alpina
Cephalotaxus fortunei var. fortunei (Fortune's Plum Yew)

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Dioecious
Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Pollinators [1]  Wind
Specific Gravity [2]  0.532
Structure [1]  Shrub
Usage [1]  Some forms of this species are procumbent in habit and can be used as ground cover in shady places; Very tolerant of pruning, this plant makes a very good hedge in shady positions;
Height [1]  20 feet (6 m)
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Predators

Aonidiella taxus (Asiatic red scale)[3]
Muntiacus crinifrons (black muntjac)[4]
Ourapteryx nigrociliaris[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366. Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository.
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 4"Seasonal food habits of the black muntjac Muntiacus crinifrons", ZHENG Rong-Quan, BAO Yi-Xin, Current Zoology Apr. 2007, 53(2): 201 - 207
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0