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English Yew
Latin Name:
Taxus baccata
location:
Europe and northern parts of Africa
The English Yew, scientifically known as Taxus baccata, can be found more or less around Europe and northern parts of Africa. It is usually shaped as large evergreen shrub or small tree, making it a beautiful plant In the summer, its leafs are changing looking like spirally arranged needle-like leaves, appears to be two-ranked if grown in shade and in the automn it generally looks like no fall color, evergreen. The English Yew (Taxus baccata) also has flowers being not ornamentally important and the fruits it has are solitary seeds, slightly compressed, round and flessy, red. It has a special bark, where we can see flakey, furrowed reddish brown bark on it. An interesting fact regarding the way it is cultured is that pH adaptable An inconvenient with the English Yew can be that toxic You can recognize a Taxus baccata having its dark green needles that end in a horny tip. The English Yew's propagation is pretty interesting since it does it cuttings root easily
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