sentences:  Elevation ranges from 900 m to 3,700 m.
  
  It is a medium-sized evergreen coniferous tree growing to 20 m tall, similar to "Taxus baccata" and sometimes treated as a subspecies of it.The shoots are green at first, becoming brown after three or four years.The leaves are thin, flat, slightly falcate (sickle-shaped), 1.5–2.7 cm long and 2 mm broad, with a softly mucronate apex; they are arranged spirally on the shoots but twisted at the base to appear in two horizontal ranks on all except for erect lead shoots.