The silver gray nanyew, as its name implies, has silver gray leaves. It belongs to the drooping nanyew, with drooping branches.
It's also called South American fir. It's about 30-50cm high. Its leaves are lanceolate, curved at the apex, densely growing on the upper part of the main branch, covered with tiles, 5cm long. The leaves on the side branch are 2.5cm long, with dark green luster on both sides. It's especially like Cryptomeria, with upright cones and round or oval heads.
It is also called heterophylla and Norfolk. In Guangdong Province, it is also called monkey fir. It likes the sun and bears the cold. Its trunk is upright, its branches are horizontally extended and in rotation. The leaves are subulate, slightly flat on both sides, 7-18 mm in length, with sharp ends.
The cone is nearly spherical, and the apex of bract scales is curved upward. It is native to Norfolk Island, Australia, and has been introduced into China.
Norfolk Southern yew is a good ornamental garden. It can be planted at a height of more than 30 meters. It likes warmth and sunshine. It can not only bear the high temperature of 40 ℃ but also the low temperature of - 5 ℃, and can survive in the open at about 27 ℃ north latitude.
It is also called Tashan, yew, broad leaved and lanceolate. It is a tree with a height of 50 meters in its origin.
Bark thick, dark gray brown, branches spreading, lateral branchlets, drooping, branchlets green, smooth and glabrous.
The leaves are ovate lanceolate, 18-35mm long. The leaves on young trees and vegetative branches are longer than those on fruit and flower branches and old trees, with sparse arrangement. The leaves in the middle of twigs are longer than those on both ends, and the leaves on both ends of old trees and twigs are densely arranged.
The fruit is spherical, and the apex of the bract scale is triangular. The seed apex was fat and exserted, oval, wingless on both sides.
