Vol. 43

Title:
Sexual Propagation of Taxus cuspidata ‘Capitata’

Authors:
Tony Vrablic and Ralph Shugert

pp: 467-468

Abstract:
INTRODUCTION

The typical form of Taxus cuspidata now has the cultivar name of ‘Capitata’. The species is indigenous to Japan (four islands), Korea, and Manchuria Many nurseries propagate this cultivar sexually for two basic reasons. First, unless upright terminal cutting wood is used the progeny will maintain the same growth habit as if they were attached to the mother plant. Secondly, a cutting-grown T.cuspidata ‘Capitata’ does not have the full basal branching that one observes in a seedling-grown plant. Therefore at Zelenka Nursery, Inc. all T.cuspidata ‘Capitata’ is sexually propagated.

The frustrations in sexual propagation of T cuspidata ‘Capitata’ are sporadic germination, and poor quality in seedling height and caliper. We shall share with you seed source, stratification, culture, and transplanting practices.

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