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 ...

Although poisonous when ingested, the yew species is an integral component in medicine development for cancer treatment. In 1971, researchers seeking plants that may possess anti-cancer properties ...

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 ...

“I’m an unabashed tree hugger,” Cassandra Leah Quave happily admits. And she means it. She’s actually hugged a yew tree in Scotland that is estimated to be 5,000 years old. It wasn’t ...

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 ...