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The Llangernyw Yew in Clwyd, Wales, can be found at another early saint site and is about 4000–5000 years old according to an investigation led by David Bellamy, [28] who also carbon-dated a yew tree in Tisbury at around 4000 years old. [29]
Denison is a city in Grayson County, Texas, United States, 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the Texas–Oklahoma border. Its population was 24,479 at the 2020 census, up from 22,682 at the 2010 census. [2] Denison is part of the Texoma region and is one of two principal cities in the Sherman–Denison metropolitan statistical area.
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Yew tree. Plath composed “The Moon and the Yew Tree” while living with fellow poet and spouse Ted Hughes at his family’s estate in Devon, England.The poem was conceived as an “exercise” in which Hughes challenged Plath to respond in verse to the full moon setting over a yew tree in a churchyard visible from her bedroom window.
The first attempt to extract the poisonous substance in the yew tree was in 1828 by Piero Peretti, who isolated a bitter substance. [14] In 1856, H. Lucas, a pharmacist in Arnstadt , prepared a white alkaloid powder from the foliage of Taxus baccata L . which he named taxine. [ 15 ]
The Sherman–Denison MSA is a component of the Dallas-Ft. Worth combined statistical area, which covers a 19-county area and had an estimated population of 8,057,796 as of July 1, 2009. [3] It is also a major part of the Texoma region with proximity to both Lake Texoma and the Red 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.