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Cephalotaxus oliveri
Oliver's plum yew is an evergreen conifer shrub or small tree from subtropical China, reaching up to 4 m, grown mainly as an ornamental shrub in shade gardens. It tolerates shade and needs moist, well-drained soil.
Cephalotaxus oliveri, the Oliver's plum yew, is a coniferous shrub or small tree in the family Cephalotaxaceae. It is native to China and possibly to Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and eastern India.
Cephalotaxus oliveri occurs in subtropical evergreen and deciduous broad-leaved forests, coniferous and mixed forests, at altitudes between 300 and 1,800 meters above sea level. It is an understorey shrub, occurring in the shrub layer mixed with several genera of angiosperms such as Rhododendron, Camellia, Cotoneaster, Deutzia, Lonicera, Berberis, Buddleia, Euonymus, Hydrangea, Prunus and other species.
This species is exploited for its bark, twigs, roots and seeds, which contain anti-carcinogenic alkaloids, for medicinal purpose. It is also cultivated as an ornamental shrub both in and outside China.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cephalotaxus oliveri by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
