Rising Star is the ideal Taxus for every garden. Suitable as a solitair or uniform hedge. Rising Star has very little maintenance and has no berries. Winterhardy as Taxus media Hicksii and Hillii but the difference is that Rising Star is growing faster and is much better shaped. Rising Star can stand full sun, half-shadow or shadow.

Taxus media Rising Star ('oene'^PBR) is protected by European Plant Breeders Rights under number EU 20110485.

It has been bred by de Buurte in Oene.