Taxus cuspidata
Siebold & Zucc. · speciesAt a glance
Sources14 archives
Databases and archives Taxus cuspidata's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation13 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 939 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI54 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics39 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
dukesphytochemcompounds
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Taxus cuspidata, the Japanese yew or spreading yew, is a member of the genus Taxus, native to Japan, Korea, northeast China and the extreme southeast of Russia. It is an evergreen tree or large shrub growing to 10–18 m tall, with a trunk up to 60 cm diameter. The leaves are lanceolate, flat, dark green, 1–3 cm long and 2–3 mm broad, arranged spirally on the stem, but with the leaf bases twisted to align the leaves in two flattish rows either side of the stem except on erect leading shoots where the spiral arrangement is more obvious. The seed cones are highly modified, each cone containing a single seed 4–8 mm long partly surrounded by a modified scale which develops into a soft, bright red berry-like structure called an aril, 8–12 mm long and wide and open at the end. The arils are mature 6–9 months after pollination. Individual trees from Sikhote-Alin are known to have been 1,000 years old.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology8
Life cycle & reproduction28
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment26
Physiology & chemistry24
Uses & economy15
Other traits7
Compounds documented for Taxus cuspidata across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds400 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (+)-lariciresinol | present | LOTUS | |
| (+)-Matairesinol | present | LOTUS | |
| (+)-Nortrachelogenin | present | LOTUS | |
| (+)-Pinoresinol | present | LOTUS | |
| (+)-Secoisolariciresinol | present | LOTUS | |
| (+)-Yunnanxane | present | LOTUS | |
| (-)-Matairesinol | present | LOTUS | |
| (11,12-Diacetyloxy-1,7-dihydroxy-10,14,17-trimethyl-6-methylidene-16-oxatetracyclo[11.3.1.03,14.05,10]heptadec-13(17)-en-4-yl) acetate | present | LOTUS | |
| (13R)-13-hydroxy-12,12-dimethyl-6-propan-2-yltricyclo[9.4.0.03,8]pentadeca-1,3(8),6,10,14-pentaene-4,5,9-trione | present | LOTUS | |
| (1R)-2alpha,5alpha,9alpha,10beta-Tetraacetoxytaxa-4(20),11-diene-13-one | present | LOTUS |
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Taxus cuspidata has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
The complete instruction manual Taxus cuspidata carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
2n 244×CCDB · iapt · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants
diploid inferred1×PloiDB · family-scale
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type1 939 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions69 of 110 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 64 |
| Shinshu Universitylocation not on record | 35 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 18 |
| JP | 17 |
| Bronx, US | 16 |
| Herbarium of the Department of Botany, University of Tokyolocation not on record | 14 |
| Beijing, CN | 14 |
| Bando, JP | 13 |
| Kochi, JP | 12 |
| Paris, FR | 11 |
| LDlocation not on record | 11 |
| Wlocation not on record | 11 |
| National Institute of Biological Resourceslocation not on record | 11 |
| Allentown, US | 11 |
| FFPRIlocation not on record | 11 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 10 |
| College Park, US | 10 |
| Tokushima, JP | 8 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 8 |
| Nagano City, JP | 8 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 8 |
| Toyama, JP | 8 |
| Sugadaira Research Station, Mountain Science Center, University of Tsukubalocation not on record | 8 |
| Sendai, JP | 7 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 7 |
| KIRMlocation not on record | 6 |
| Saint Louis, US | 6 |
| Kyoto Universitylocation not on record | 6 |
| Servico de Microbiologia e Imunologialocation not on record | 6 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 6 |
| Minia, EG | 6 |
| Dekalb, US | 6 |
| Helsinki, FI | 5 |
| Jena Microbial Resource Collectionlocation not on record | 5 |
| New Haven, US | 5 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 4 |
| Millersville, US | 4 |
| Forestry and Forest Products Research Institutelocation not on record | 4 |
| Philadelphia, US | 4 |
| Hudson, US | 4 |
| Wuhan, CN | 4 |
| Kingston, US | 4 |
| Tampa, US | 4 |
| Lincoln, US | 4 |
| KR | 4 |
| University of New Hampshirelocation not on record | 3 |
| Cambridge, US | 3 |
| Elocation not on record | 3 |
| IWEP FEB RASlocation not on record | 3 |
| Rotorua, NZ | 3 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 3 |
| IFR-DNFlocation not on record | 3 |
| Obihiro Centennial City Museumlocation not on record | 3 |
| Taipei, TW | 2 |
| Sanda, JP | 2 |
| Corvallis, US | 2 |
| Burlington, US | 2 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 2 |
| China Agricultural Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Logan, US | 2 |
| Denver, US | 2 |
| KOMlocation not on record | 2 |
| Sapporo, JP | 2 |
| DNSMlocation not on record | 2 |
| Chicago, US | 2 |
| Boise, US | 2 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 2 |
| Auckland, NZ | 2 |
| Nanjing, CN | 2 |
| Madison, US | 2 |
| Richmond, US | 2 |
| Odawara, JP | 1 |
| Berlin, DE | 1 |
| Olocation not on record | 1 |
| Durham, US | 1 |
| Albuquerque, US | 1 |
| Williamsburg, US | 1 |
| Moscow, US | 1 |
| Saint John, CA | 1 |
| Pocatello, US | 1 |
| Western Carolina Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Oiso Municipal Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| KMNlocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 1 |
| Cincinnati, US | 1 |
| Chiba, JP | 1 |
| Norfolk, US | 1 |
| Philadelphia, US | 1 |
| San Diego, US | 1 |
| Fukushima Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Tartu, EE | 1 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 1 |
| Görlitz, DE | 1 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 1 |
| Kew, GB | 1 |
| Waverly, US | 1 |
| DBF-NHMDlocation not on record | 1 |
| Otaru, JP | 1 |
| Iwate Prefectural Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Honolulu, US | 1 |
| Victoria, CA | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicachlocation not on record | 1 |
| SJNAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 1 |
| Meguro Parasitological Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Tampere, FI | 1 |
| Macomb, US | 1 |
| McWane Science Centerlocation not on record | 1 |
| Mississippi State, US | 1 |
| Guilin, CN | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Taxus cuspidata was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.