Leaves, spirally attached but on lateral shoots twisted more or less into two ranks, can live for up to 8 years 1–3(−4.5) cm long and 2–3 mm wide, parallel-sided, shortly stalked, mucronate, dark glossy green above, paler and yellowish beneath with two pale stomatiferous stripes midrib prominent on both sides, margins recurved, tapering to a petiole-like base.
Twigs green and irregularly alternate buds very small, bud scales dark-brown, rounded, imbricate and closely appressed. Root system shallow with extensive horizontal roots, often above ground on calcareous substrates. Capable of producing leafy branches from old branches and trunks, and sometimes from stools.
Taxus baccata is a native evergreen non-resinous gymnosperm tree up to 20(−28) m, often with multiple trunks and spreading, rounded or pyramidal canopy.
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