YEW

The Common Yew Taxus baccata is a conifer native to Europe, Turkey and Iran. It grows naturally in Britain on chalk downs and limestones and in oak woodlands. It has been planted for centuries in churchyards, parks, formal gardens and hedges. It is slow growing and long-lived and some trees are more than 1000 years old. The Irish Yew Taxus baccata ‘Fastigiata’ is a cultivated variety of the Common Yew found on an estate in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland in 1765. It is now found in churchyards and formal gardens everywhere.

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