Torreya grandis

Chinese nutmeg yew (although it is not related to either the nutmeg or the yew genus is in the yew or Taxaceae family and is native to eastern and south-eastern China, specifically in the coastal provinces of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu, as well as in Anhui, Guizhou, Hunan, and Jiangxi inland. It is an evergreen tree growing up to 25 m tall.

• Evergreen needles are single, alternate, spirally arranged, 2–3 cm long and 3 mm broad, with a sharply spined tip, spirally arranged but appearing 2-ranked on branches with short petioles twisted to flatten needles in one plane.
• Male cones are small, round, and yellow, 5–6 mm in diameter, in a double row on underside of shoot; female cones are in clusters of 3-8, maturing to a single seed surrounded by a fleshy layer 2 cm long and 1.5 cm broad.