Taxus chinensis likes slightly acidic soil, and alkaline soil will cause poor growth or even death. For the soil texture requirements appropriate loose, too loose it also don't like, the general garden soil and rotten leaf soil mix can, in order to better drainage can be mixed on the river sand and perlite.
Yew has a special requirement for light. It can endure shade in one to three years. After three years, the requirement for light will be higher and higher. It needs full light in adulthood.
Yew in the maintenance period to keep the pot soil slightly moist, not completely dry, but also afraid of water, because it is easy to cause rotten roots.
In the maintenance, regular pruning should be carried out, mainly in the germination of the young shoot to pick the heart, so as to promote its lateral branches, so that the branches become shorter and denser. If not pruned, the branches will grow very long and thin and then droop, covering the lower leaves. The covered leaves will die due to lack of sunlight, and the branches at the bottom will fall off after a long time.
The disease and insect pest of yew is relatively less, family maintenance can not pay too much attention to this problem
If Taxus after flowering and seed setting, its fake seed skin can be eaten, and other parts are poisonous. It's not recommended to eat it, or to take it directly as a medicine. Its effective ingredients should be extracted and processed before they can be effective
