Florida Yew

There is a nice specimen at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville NC (zone 7a). I see this growing in Columbus NC, zone 7b and we are going to...Read More try it. Taxus is the number one favorite of deer so I have fenced it in. Local Big Frog Nursery (http://www.bigfrognursery.com) has 35 in stock as of 9/23/2017.

This species is commercially available, and clearly is much hardier than indicated above. There are many large specimens on the campus of...Read More Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, Z6a.

In its tiny native range, this threatened species is being overbrowsed by deer to the point of extinction.

This species is said by some to be much, much more cold hardy (z4) than listed here. In fact it appears to grow better further North than...Read More it's current native range. It may be among the multitude of plants that sought refuge in the American South during the Ice Age, but has not yet had time or faced too much competition to migrate back north. Many species now found in the American South once inhabited much more northerly areas before the ice ages. This yew may be another of those species.

Florida Yew is a very rare species restricted to the river bluffs and ravines on the banks of the Apalachicola River in Panhandle region of Florida.