CATTON ARBORETUM
Taxus baccata
Common name: Common Yew
Year planted: 2014
Country of origin: Common in parts of Europe and Asia Minor
Year introduced: Yews in the UK can be many thousands of years old
Description: A very long lived evergreen tree with needle like leaves and small red berry like fruit. Yew foliage and bark are poisonous to most domestic livestock and people and hence they are often found in areas where livestock are absent such as graveyards and large gardens. The wood of yew was traditionally used for musical instruments, furniture and Longbows. Yew was the wood of choice for medieval Longbows and the tree is commonly used in topiary in large gardens. Certain compounds found in yew tree bark were found in 1967 to be useful as anti cancer agents
what3words: mulls.clicker.whizzed
Tree number: 61
Year planted: 2014
Country of origin: Common in parts of Europe and Asia Minor
Year introduced: Yews in the UK can be many thousands of years old
Description: A very long lived evergreen tree with needle like leaves and small red berry like fruit. Yew foliage and bark are poisonous to most domestic livestock and people and hence they are often found in areas where livestock are absent such as graveyards and large gardens. The wood of yew was traditionally used for musical instruments, furniture and Longbows. Yew was the wood of choice for medieval Longbows and the tree is commonly used in topiary in large gardens. Certain compounds found in yew tree bark were found in 1967 to be useful as anti cancer agents
what3words: mulls.clicker.whizzed
Tree number: 61
