It turns yellow-green or reddish brown in autumn, and the 23-year-old branches are yellowish brown, reddish brown or grayish brown; Winter buds are yellow-brown, light-brown or reddish-brown, shiny, with triangular-ovate bud scales, no ridges or longitudinal ridges on the back, falling off or a few remaining at the base of branchlets.
Leaves are arranged in two rows, strip-shaped, slightly curved or straight, slightly sharp in the upper part, often slightly sharp at the top, sparsely sharp or gradually sharp, dark green and shiny in the upper part, and yellow-green in the lower part, with two stomatal bands, and the midvein band has dense, uniform and tiny round horny papillae, which is often the same color as the stomatal band.
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Growth habit
Taxus chinensis is suitable for planting in all parts of China. It has the characteristics of shade-loving, drought tolerance and cold tolerance, and requires the soil pH value to be 5.5-7.0. Habitat is shade-tolerant, and it can also grow under dense forests, and it is not a forest all the year round.
It is more common in coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forests dominated by Korean pine. Born on rocky or barren soil on the mountain, it is mostly shrub-like. Most of them are scattered under wet and fertile coniferous and broadleaved mixed forests on shady or semi-shady slopes.
Sexual preference for cool and humid climate, tolerance to low temperature below minus 30℃, strong cold resistance, and optimum temperature of 20-25℃, belonging to negative tree species. Like wet but afraid of waterlogging, it is suitable for planting on loose, wet and well-drained sandy loam.