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Taxus brevifolia, the Pacific yew or western yew, is a species of tree in the yew family Taxaceae native to the Pacific Northwest of North America. It is a small evergreen conifer , thriving in moisture and otherwise tending to take the form of a shrub .
Taxine can be found in Taxus species: Taxus cuspidata, T. baccata (English yew), Taxus x media, Taxus canadensis, Taxus floridana, and Taxus brevifolia (Pacific or western yew). All of these species contain taxine in every part of the plant except in the aril , [ citation needed ] the fleshy covering of the seeds (berries).
The Pacific yew (Taxus brevifolia), native to the Pacific Northwest of North America, and the Canada yew (Taxus canadensis) of Eastern and Central North America were the initial sources of paclitaxel or Taxol, a chemotherapeutic drug used in breast and lung cancer treatment and, more recently, in the production of the Taxus drug eluting stent ...
Taxus chinensis is a species of yew. It is commonly called the Chinese yew , though this term also refers to Taxus celebica or Taxus sumatrana . This plant is used to produce medicines for cancer treatment, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] including Paclitaxel [ 5 ] and Taxifolin (found in Taxus chinensis var. mairei) . [ 6 ]
Taxus baccata is a species of evergreen tree in the family Taxaceae, native to Western Europe, Central Europe and Southern Europe, as well as Northwest Africa, northern Iran, and Southwest Asia. [4] It is the tree originally known as yew , though with other related trees becoming known, it may be referred to as common yew , [ 5 ] European yew ...
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.
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Torreya taxifolia new growth [27] Ripe torreya seeds, October 2013, Mt. Olive, North Carolina [31] One of the original 1939 plantings of Florida Torreya at the Biltmore Estate near Asheville, NC (2004). [32] The United States government official page listing the endangered status of Torreya taxifolia shows only one common name, Florida torreya ...