Taxon: Taxus cuspidata Siebold & Zucc.

Species on the following lists:

• CITES Appendix II
  
• Check conservation status and distribution in NatureServe Explorer database

Common names:

• Japanese yew   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• dong bei hong dou shan   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• ichii   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• kyaraboku   (Source: F JapanOhwi [as T. cuspidata var. nana]) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• japansk idegran   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3)
  
• Materials: tannin/dyestuff   (fide F ChinaEng)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide Ency WTimber)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide F ChinaEng)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Taxus cuspidata from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Kurile Islands, Primorye, Sakhalin
  China: China - Heilongjiang, Jilin [e.], Liaoning, Shaanxi
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku; Korea

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
• CITES. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendices I, II and III (on-line resource).
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. [poisonous].
• Cope, E. A. 1998. Taxaceae: the genera and cultivated species. Bot. Rev. (Lancaster) 64:309.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. [mentions].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Kitagawa, M. 1979. Neo-lineamenta florae Manshuricae.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Tai Hyun Chung. 1965. Illustrated encyclopedia of fauna & flora of Korea, vol. 5, Tracheophyta.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Taxus cuspidata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Taxus cuspidata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Taxus cuspidata.

Synonyms:

• (=) Taxus baccata auct.
  
• (=) Taxus cuspidata var. luteobaccata Miyabe & Tatew.
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• (=) Taxus cuspidata var. umbraculifera Makino
  

Check other web resources for Taxus cuspidata Siebold & Zucc.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Gymnosperm Database of Christopher J. Earle
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Taxus cuspidata cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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