Common Names
Taxonomic notes
C. hainanensis is sometimes placed in synonymy with C. mannii.Description
Trees to 21 m tall, closely resembling C. fortunei in habit, but with smaller, narrower leaves that are green, not white, below. Seeds, 3-4 on a common stalk, each about 3.8 cm long, obovoid with a short apical point, narrowed at the base (2, 4).Range
China: Guangdong (Xingyi), Guangxi, Yunnan, SE Xizang [Tibet]; N Vietnam; N Thailand; N Myanmar; NE India (Khasi, Jaintia and Naga Hills (3). The southernmost species of Cephalotaxus, it grows at low to middle elevation on moist, shaded slopes and gullies in woodlands. Not cultivated in the U.S., but not likely cold hardy beyond USDA Zone 9 (4).Big Tree
Oldest
Dendrochronology
Ethnobotany
Observations
Remarks
Listed as threatened in Viet Nam by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Sparsely distributed, and endangered by harvesting for timber and medicinal purposes throughout its range (4).Citations
(1) Silba 1986.(2) Dallimore & Jackson 1967.
(3) Farjon 1998.
(4) Kim E. Tripp. 1995. Cephalotaxus: the plum yews. Arnoldia 55(1): 24-39.
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Last modified on 24-May-1999