| Scientific Name: | Taxus x media |
| Common Name: | yew, dense yew |
| Family Name: | Taxaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Conifer |
| Mature Size: | 5 - 7m x 2 - 3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Screening, Sheared hedge |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Needle-like, Spiraled, Leathery, Glabrous, Lustrous, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | n/a (male cone) |
| Fruit: | Drupe, (Accessory tissue), Red |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Evergreen shrub; mature branches olive-green; leaves pointy, flat, linear to 3cm long, 2-ranked and spreading; seed protected by an ovoid aril to 1cm long, bright red, fleshy. | |