Torreya taxifolia

Florida nutmeg yew or Florida torreya is in the yew or Taxaceae family and is a rare and endangered tree of the yew family found in the Southeastern United States, at the state border region of northern Florida and southwestern Georgia. It can reach a height of 20 m tall.

• The trees are conical in overall shape, with whorled branches.
• Evergreen needles are single, stiff, alternate, spirally arranged, 2–3.5 cm long and 3 mm broad, with sharply spined tips, spirally arranged but appearing 2-ranked on branches with short petioles twisted to flatten needles in one plane.
• Male pollen cones small, round, 5–7 mm in diameter, in a double row on underside of shoot. Female (seed) cones are single or grouped 2–5 together on a short stem; they mature in about 18 months to a drupe-like structure with the single large nut-like seed 2–3.5 cm long surrounded by a fleshy covering, dark green to purple at full maturity in the fall.