taxon_rank taxus cuspidata
Russia ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian Federation , is a country in Eurasia . At , Russia is the largest country in the world by surface area , covering more than one - eighth of the Earth ' s inhabited land area , and the ninth most populous , with over 140 million people at the end of March 2016 . The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern , about 77 % of the population live in European Russia . Russia ' s capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and Samara . Taxaceae , commonly called the yew ___MASK50___ , is a coniferous ___MASK50___ which includes seven genera and about 30 ___MASK86___ of plants , or in older interpretations three genera and 7 to 12 ___MASK86___ . Eurasia is the combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia . The term is a portmanteau of its constituent continents . Located primarily in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres , it is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west , the Pacific Ocean to the east , the Arctic Ocean to the north , and by Africa , the Mediterranean Sea , and the Indian Ocean to the south . The ___MASK35___ between Europe and Asia as two different continents is a historical and cultural construct , with no clear physical separation between them ; thus , in some parts of the world , Eurasia is recognized as the largest of five or six continents . In geology , Eurasia is often considered as a single rigid megablock . However , the rigidity of Eurasia is debated based on the paleomagnet data . China , officially the People ' s Republic of China ( PRC ), is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia . With a population of over 1 . 381 billion , it is the world ' s most populous country . The state is governed by the Communist Party of China , and its capital is Beijing . It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces , five autonomous regions , four direct - controlled municipalities ( Beijing , Tianjin , Shanghai , and Chongqing ), and two mostly self - governing special administrative regions ( Hong Kong and Macau ), and claims sovereignty over Taiwan . The country ' s major urban areas include Shanghai , Guangzhou , Beijing , Chongqing , Shenzhen , Tianjin and Hong Kong . China is a great power and a major regional power within Asia , and has been characterized as a potential superpower . A shrub or bush is a small to medium - sized woody plant . It is distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and shorter height , usually under 6 m ( 20 ft ) tall . Plants of many ___MASK86___ may grow either into shrubs or trees , depending on their growing conditions . Small , low shrubs , generally less than 2 m ( 6 . 6 ft ) tall , such as lavender , periwinkle and most small garden varieties of roses , are often termed subshrubs . Taxus cuspidata , the Japanese yew or spreading yew , is a member of the ___MASK54___ 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 . A country is a region that is identified as a distinct national entity in political geography . A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state , as a non - sovereign or formerly sovereign political ___MASK35___ , or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated people with distinct political characteristics . Regardless of the physical geography , in the modern internationally accepted legal definition as defined by the League of Nations in 1937 and reaffirmed by the United Nations in 1945 , a resident of a country is subject to the independent exercise of legal jurisdiction . Taxus is a ___MASK54___ of small coniferous trees or shrubs in the yew ___MASK50___ Taxaceae . They are relatively slow - growing and can be very long - lived , and reach heights of , with trunk girth averaging . They have reddish bark , lanceolate , flat , dark - green leaves long and broad , arranged spirally on the stem , but with the leaf bases twisted to align the leaves in two flat rows either side of the stem . A ___MASK54___ ( genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms in biology . In the hierarchy of biological classification , ___MASK54___ comes above ___MASK86___ and below family . In binomial nomenclature , the ___MASK54___ name forms the first part of the binomial ___MASK86___ name for each ___MASK86___ within the ___MASK54___ . Beijing ( formerly romanised as Peking ) is the capital of the People ' s Republic of China and the world ' s third most populous city proper . It is also one of the world ' s most populous capital cities . The city , located in northern China , is governed as a direct - controlled municipality under the national government with 16 urban , suburban , and rural districts . Beijing Municipality is surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighbouring Tianjin Municipality to the southeast ; together the three divisions ___MASK9___ the Jingjinji metropolitan region and the national capital region of China . In botany , a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem , or trunk , supporting branches and leaves in most ___MASK86___ . In some usages , the definition of a tree may be narrower , including only woody plants with secondary growth , plants that are usable as lumber or plants above a specified height . Trees are not a taxonomic group but include a variety of plant ___MASK86___ that have independently evolved a woody trunk and branches as a way to tower above other plants to compete for sunlight . In looser senses , the taller palms , the tree ferns , bananas and bamboos are also trees . Trees tend to be long - lived , some reaching several thousand years old . The tallest known tree , a coast redwood named Hyperion , stands high . Trees have been in existence for 370 million years . It is estimated that there are just over 3 trillion mature trees in the world .