Yahoo News Canada

The Right Chemistry: How the yew tree can deliver life … or death

A team of gardeners prepare the world's oldest topiary garden, at Levens Hall, in 2023. The garden, comprising of ancient box and yew trees, was established in 1694. (Credit: OLI SCARFF) The ...
Outdoor Life

Poisonous Yew: This Backyard Ornamental Kills Wildlife—and Everything Else

On Feb. 3, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game reported two elk calves had dropped dead in the Warm Springs part of Ketchum, Idaho. They join 19 other elk from Mapleton, Utah as the latest victims ...
The Atlantic

Yew Trees

BENEATH those rugged elms, that yew-tree’s shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould’ring heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. It is the loveliest ...
The New York Times

EVERGREEN TREES OF BY-GONE DAYS; Interesting Associations Connected with Celebrated Specimens of Holly, Yew, and Box -- Some Ancient Superstitions.

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Smithsonian Magazine

U.K.’s Oldest Tree Is Being Besieged by Tourists

The yew tree in the Fortingall Churchyard in Perthshire, Scotland, was there long before there was a church, or even the practice of Christianity. The yew is believed to be anywhere from 3,000 to ...