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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 ...
[2] [3] The amount of taxine alkaloids depends on the species of yew, with Taxus baccata and Taxus cuspidata containing the most. [4] The major taxine alkaloids are taxine A and taxine B although there are at least 10 different alkaloids. [5] Until 1956, it was believed that all the taxine alkaloids were one single compound named taxine. [4]
They are many-branched, small trees and shrubs.The leaves are evergreen, spirally arranged, often twisted at the base to appear 2-ranked.They are linear to lanceolate, and have pale green or white stomatal bands on the undersides.
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The first sentence of the page states: “Taxus baccata is a species of evergreen tree in the conifer family, ...". The term conifer implies either division, Pinophyta, class, Pinopsida, or order, Pinales, but not family. The Taxus genus is included in Taxaceae, the yew family. Maidenhair 10:22, 28 March 2021 (UTC) Corrected, thanks.
The Ashbrittle Yew and sign, September 2020. The Ashbrittle Yew is an ancient yew tree (Taxus baccata) located in the village of Ashbrittle, Somerset, in southwest England.. The yew grows on a tumulus in the south-east end of the churchyard of St. John the Baptist
The fleshy aril that surrounds each seed in the yew is a highly modified seed cone scale.. In European yew plants (Taxus baccata), the aril starts out as a small, green band at the base of the seed, then turns brown to red as it enlarges and surrounds the seed, eventually becoming fleshy and scarlet in color at maturity.
T. baccata appears throughout Europe and into western Asia. [2] T. cuspidata occurs over much of East Asia, in China, Japan, Korea, and Sakhalin. [13] Taxus brevifolia ranges in the United States from California to Montana and Alaska, [12] while Taxus canadensis appears in the northeastern United States and southeast Canada. [2]