Torreya taxifolia, stinking-cedar
Category: Trees
Family: Taxaceae
Origin: Florida
Evergreen: yes
Flower Color: none
Bloom Time: none
Height: 8 ft
Width: 5 ft
Exposure: part sun
Irrigation: low to medium
Cold Hardiness: 0 F
Description: This a critically endangered plant native to Apalachicola River hills and bluffs in the Florida panhandle. Although naturally a large tree to 80 ft prior to the 1950s, it now attains a height of only about 8 ft. (often as a trunk resprout) due to the deleterious effects of a fungal blight that has nearly wiped out the species.
Family: Taxaceae
Origin: Florida
Evergreen: yes
Flower Color: none
Bloom Time: none
Height: 8 ft
Width: 5 ft
Exposure: part sun
Irrigation: low to medium
Cold Hardiness: 0 F
Description: This a critically endangered plant native to Apalachicola River hills and bluffs in the Florida panhandle. Although naturally a large tree to 80 ft prior to the 1950s, it now attains a height of only about 8 ft. (often as a trunk resprout) due to the deleterious effects of a fungal blight that has nearly wiped out the species.
