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Plant Habit: Shrub
Tree
Life cycle: Perennial
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Leaves: Evergreen
Needled
Fruit: Showy
Edible to birds
Resistances: Drought tolerant
Toxicity: Leaves are poisonous
Roots are poisonous
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Will not come true from seed
Pollinators: Wind
Miscellaneous: Goes Dormant

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Common names
  • Irish Yew
  • English Yew
  • Common Yew
  • European Yew
Also sold as:
  • Stricta

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Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2016-04-14
"Aurea"
Location: Tyne and Wear, UK
Date: 2016-04-16

photo credit: Matthieu Sontag
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Date: 2021-05-27
Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England
Date: 2004-10-04
Yew fruits
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