according to Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast, a guidebook. Rather than cones that other conifers grow and shed, the yew's single seeds are found inside a red berry-like fruit called an Aril ...

Pacific yew is one of many plants now known to have anticancer activity. [7] An unsolved mystery is the relationship between this powerful anticancer agent and the plant. Is the substance ...

In 1971, researchers seeking plants that may possess anti-cancer properties discovered a chemical compound in the bark of relative of T. canadensis called pacific yew (Taxus brevifolia). This chemical ...

but because it was also a symbol of the contribution to medical advances that the Pacific yew tree has made. Quave, a leading medical ethnobotanist with a passion and respect for plants with ...

Scientists say the experimental drug taxol — until now available in limited amounts from the bark of a tree that grows only in the Pacific ... nursery accumulated 40,000 pounds of Japanese yew ...

Pacific yew, Taxus brevifolia, is a fairly rare North American softwood tree, found in southern Alaska ... yew has been used for archery bows, bending stock, canoe paddles and musical instruments ...

according to Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast, a guidebook. Rather than cones that other conifers grow and shed, the yew's single seeds are found inside a red berry-like fruit called an Aril that ...