Taxus cuspidata 'Nana Aurescens' / dwarf golden Japanese yew

Taxus cuspidata 'Nana Aurescens' is an outstanding, sunny-yellow, low-spreading, dwarf selection of Japanese yew. It is noted for its eye-catching brilliant yellow foliage in spring that darkens to typical rich green by the end of the growing season. After 10 years of growth, a specimen will be considered mature at 2 feet (60 cm) tall and 3 feet (90 cm) wide, a rate of growth of around 2 to 3 inches (5 - 7.5 cm) per year.

Little is known of the origin of this cultivar other that it recently arrived in the nursery trade via Japan in the early 2000s which can potentially cause a problem with the Latinized cultivar name unless it can be shown that it was named prior to 1959.