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Millennium yews were planted in 2000 as part of a joint scheme between the Church of England and the Conservation Foundation, UK to celebrate the end of the 2nd millennium. The church promised a cutting, taken from some of the yews in its churchyards that are more than 2,000 years old, to any parish that wanted one.
Taxus is a genus of coniferous trees or shrubs known as yews in the family Taxaceae. [1] Yews occur around the globe in temperate zones of the northern hemisphere, northernmost in Norway and southernmost in the South Celebes. Some populations exist in tropical highlands. [2] The oldest known fossil species are from the Early Cretaceous. [3]
Taxus canadensis, the Canada yew [2] or Canadian yew, is a conifer native to central and eastern North America, thriving in swampy woods, ravines, riverbanks and on lake shores. Locally called simply as "yew", this species is also referred to as American yew or ground-hemlock. Most of its range is well north of the Ohio River.
The word yew as it was originally used seems to refer to the colour brown. [12] The yew (μίλος) was known to Theophrastus, who noted its preference for mountain coolness and shade, its evergreen character and its slow growth. [13]
The survivor of the original pair of Irish yew saplings discovered on Cuilcagh mountain in 1767, this specimen was transplanted to the gardens at Florence Court in the same year. Almost all Irish yews worldwide are believed to derive from this tree following its commercial propagation after 1820. Bermiego Yew: European yew (Taxus baccata)
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The Craigends Yew (NS4199566134) is an ancient European layering yew (Taxus baccata) growing next to the River Gryffe in what were the grounds of the Craigends Estate, Houston in Renfrewshire, Scotland. Estimates put its age at around 500 to 700 years old and it is one of the largest and oldest examples of a heritage layering yew in Scotland.
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