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Baccata is Latin for 'bearing berries'. 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 arils are edible and sweet, but the seed is dangerously poisonous; unlike birds, the human stomach can break down the seed coat and release the toxins into the body. This can have fatal results if yew 'berries' are eaten without removing the seeds first.
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 .
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.
Taxaceae (/ t æ k ˈ s eɪ s i. iː,-ˌ aɪ /), commonly called the yew family, is a coniferous family which includes six extant and two extinct genera, and about 30 species of plants, or in older interpretations three genera and 7 to 12 species.
Chokeberry. A cultivar of another native shrub that is grown for its berries is Iroquois Black Beauty Black Chokeberry ‘Morton' (Aronia melanocarpa). Gardeners use it as a landscape plant as well.
Berries, edible raw and used in jams [28] Elder: Sambucus nigra: Europe, North Africa, Central Asia and Anatolia: Flowers (June to July), edible raw, as a salad green, or pickled, or to make tea, or alcoholic beverages . Berries (August to October), edible when ripe (turning upside down) and cooked; raw berries are mildly poisonous [29 ...
Sumatran yew (Taxus sumatrana) Himalayan yew (Taxus wallichiana) †Taxus masonii (Eocene fossil yew) It is also used for any of various coniferous plants in the families Taxaceae and Cephalotaxaceae: White-berry yew (Pseudotaxus chienii) New Caledonian yew or southern yew (Austrotaxus spicata) Catkin-yew (Amentotaxus sp.) Plum-yew ...