Cephalotaxus fortunei

Cephalotaxus fortunei, commonly called the Chinese Plum Yew, simply Plum Yew, Chinese Cowtail Pine or in as San Jian Shan , is a shrub or small tree in the . It is native to northern Burma and China, but is sometimes grown in western gardens where it has been in cultivation since 1848.

Description

''C. fortunei'' is a shrub or small tree growing to as high as 20 m with a diameter at breast height of about 20 cm. They are usually multi-stemmed with an open and loosely rounded crown. In cultivation they tend to grow on a single stem that is often leaning and bare towards the bottom, but with dense foliage on the upper half. There are 11 haploid chromosomes present with the tree's DNA.