This cultivar is the most common Japanese Yew selection that brings forth a pyramidal tree form in the northern USA and southern Canada. It is propagated by taking only the very terminal tip of a plant to root it, as side branches rooted will result in having shrubs instead. It has been commonly planted in many yards in the Midwest, the Mid-Atlantic, and the Northeast and is sheared a lot by homeowners to keep it about 6 to 12 feet high. Unfortunately, the average homeowner does not know that it is against landscape design law to plant pointed evergreens or any such plant at the corners of a building or house because it emphasizes the vertical aspect. It is so often wrongly used one at each corner of a house or even at the front doorway. If it is planted in odd number group, then it is not such a harsh form. It is best for a formal garden or landscape. I recommend people visit Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia to check out how one should design and plant a formal European type of landscape. In Europe the less cold hardy English Yew is used instead.

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