Cephalotaxus koreana

Korean plum yew is in the yew or Taxaceae family and is native to Korea, Japan and northeast China. Some botanists consider it synonymous with C. harringtonii.

• Evergreen needles are single, alternate, spirally arranged, 5 cm long and 3 mm broad, leathery, with a sharply spined tip, spirally arranged but appearing 2-ranked on branches with short petioles twisted to flatten needles in one plane. The underside of the leaves shows 2 broad, pale stomatal bands.
• Species is dioecious (individual trees producing either male or mostly female cones). Male cones are small, round, on 2–4 mm stocks, and yellow, 5–6 mm in diameter, in a double row on underside of shoot; females have 2 pairs of globose flowers on curved sticks at the bases of shoots.
• The fruit is ovoid, 2.5 cm long and 1.5 cm wide, smooth and pale green in colour, with dark green stripes, turning brown when ripe.