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starlight1153 Seale, AL(Zone 8b) Mar 23, 2007

yesterday we took up a small shrub called Cehalotaxus harringtonia 'Prostrata'. The Japenese Plum Yew. We know that the Northern grown version produces flowers, but everybody was wonderign if this one does. Anybody ever seen any flowers on it? Also a question was brought up about it's fruit. Somebopdy said that C. harringtonia makes an olive, but somebody else thought this shrub was in the almond family and thought is should give a almond type fruit and pit? Can anybody set us straight. The professor didn't know himself?

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Resin Northumberland, United Kingdom(Zone 9a) Mar 23, 2007

Being a conifer, it can't have flowers or fruit, just cones (strobili, to be technical) ;-) The mature seed cones are a highly modified, drupe-like structure about 2cm long, containing a large seed with a fleshy coating.

Whether that particular cultivar produces seeds or not, I don't know.

Resin

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Phrago Coldwater, MI(Zone 5b) Mar 23, 2007

Maybe this link will be helpful...

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/factsheets/shrubs/cephalotaxus_harring-prost.html

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