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unusual facts about yew


Selattyn

The church is situated within an oval churchyard in which can be found a number of extremely old Yew trees.


Alcaucín

Closer to the "Senos de la Tejada", the pines are disappearing to make way for size shrub species such as juniper, savin, hawthorn, and yew, which is currently on the decline, although is teem on some cliffs on the north side of Sierra Tejada.

Ambiorix's revolt

He solemnly cursed Ambiorix for instigating the conspiracy, and then poisoned himself with yew.

Amongst Women

He is buried under a yew tree, but his influence does not leave his family "...as they left him under the yew, it was as if each of them in their different ways had become Daddy."

Anstey College of Physical Education

In 1898 Anstey College hosted a meeting that would lead to the creation, the following year, of the Ling Association (later renamed the Physical Education Association of the United Kingdom), and in 1907 the college moved to new premises at Yew Tree House, Chester Road, Erdington, Birmingham, which would remain its home for nearly 75 years.

Bank Hall Estate

The Crossford Lodge gardens once had Yew trees but these were removed in 2001 due to the poisonous berries they produce.

Bog-wood

Bog-wood may come from any tree species naturally growing near or in bogs, including oak (Quercus – "bog oak"), pine (Pinus), yew (Taxus), swamp cypress (Taxodium) and kauri (Agathis).

Bridgewater Four

Carl Bridgewater (January 2, 1965 - September 19, 1978) was shot dead at Yew Tree Farm on the A449 in Staffordshire (approximately three miles north-west of Stourbridge), when he disturbed burglars while delivering a newspaper to the house on 19 September 1978.

C.L.I.F.

Qi Yuwu 戚玉武 as SI Tang Yew Jia (唐耀佳) - An investigating officer in the Tanglin PD.

Cephalotaxus harringtonii

The Japanese plum yew was first considered to be a yew when it was partially described by Thomas Andrew Knight in 1839 and as such was named Taxus harringtonii.

Château de la Bourlie

A grand axis between the village and woods was laid out, an alley linden trees was planted, along with yew trees strimmed into topiary forms.

Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories

Upon reaching a desolate valley after a few hours, it begins to snow and as a dark storm gathers intensity, the Englishman takes shelter in a grove of cypress and yew trees.

Endophyte

One notable endophyte with medicinal benefits to humans was discovered by Gary Strobel: Pestalotiopsis microspora, an endophytic fungus of Taxus wallachiana (Himalayan Yew) was found to produce taxol.

Foon Yew High School

Foon Yew High School is named after a quote in the Doctrine of the Mean.

Fortingall Yew

The purpose of this "Yew Conservation Hedge Project" is to maintain the DNA of Taxus baccata from ancient specimens in the UK as, worldwide, the trees are threatened by felling and disease.

Gatcombe, Somerset

The garden includes a yew hedge which is believed to be 400 years old and a recently added Roman herb garden designed by Jekka McVicar.

Henryków Lubański

The village contains Poland's oldest tree – a 1260-year-old yew, which is listed as a natural monument.

KAPAP

KAPAP Federation Asia is headed by Master Teo Yew Chye (KAPAP Level 3 Instructor) and his training team on behalf of Major Avi Nardia and Lt. Col. Chaim Pe'er.

Lau Yew

Lau Yew is believed to have favoured a seizure of power from the British in 1945 before they had fully re-established themselves in Malaya, but was opposed in this by the MCP's leader Lai Teck.

Les Jonquerets-de-Livet

French if (Yew-tree) and suffixe -etu(m) > -ey / -oy /-ay > -aie, used to mean "collection of trees", so that Livet means "yew grove" (l'ivaie in modern French).

Llanelieu

Near the church is a veteran yew that was believed to have been used as the parish stocks in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Loke Yew

He also adopted a hardworking employee named Hon Chow as a son during this marriage (this adopted son subsequently changed his surname to Loke but left his given name unchanged and so was the only son without the generational component in his name of "Wan" common to all the biological male children of Loke Yew who were born before and after him).

Looking East to Look West: Lee Kuan Yew's Mission India

Looking East to Look West: Lee Kuan Yew's Mission India won India's most prestigious literary non-fiction prize, the Vodafone Crossword Book Award for 2009.

Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend

On top of that, Glaswegian Head Gardener Angus McAllister is making noises on his pet hobby, the project to gravel the famous Yew Alley.

Maramureș

The heavy forested mountains sustain many protected species of plants, such as yew (Taxus baccata), larch (Larix decidua), Swiss pine (Pinus cembra), edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum); and animals, such as lynx (Lynx lynx), chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra), alpine marmot (Marmota marmota), golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), and capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus).

Martin of Vertou

There is a legend that he planted his pilgrim's staff in the middle of the abbey courtyard at Vertou and that it took root, growing into a yew tree, which appears on the arms of the commune of Vertou.

Miharja LRT station

The Miharja station is situated at the southwestern side of the Miharja Flats, a complex of flats close to Kerayong River in the locality of Taman Miharja, off Jalan Loke Yew (Loke Yew Road).

Muckross Abbey

Its most striking feature is a central courtyard, which contains a large yew tree and is surrounded by a vaulted cloister.

Nantglyn

A notable feature of its churchyard is the "pulpit in a tree" built into an ancient yew.

One from the Modern

The album's cover photograph was taken in the Yew Garden at Packwood House near Solihull, England, a National Trust Property.

One Park West

The ceremony included four significant elements being added to the final concrete mix; Cains beer, oil, water from the River Mersey and a yew branch to promote fertility, liberty, and wisdom, and to ward off evil spirits.

Royal Saxon tomb in Prittlewell

A copy of it was made, in yew wood, and was played to accompany a funeral song sung for King Sǣberht in Anglo-Saxon and English in a church in Southend.

Rural cemetery

As early as 1711 the architect Sir Christopher Wren had advocated the creation of burial grounds on the outskirts of town, "inclosed with a strong Brick Wall, and having a walk round, and two cross walks, decently planted with Yew-trees".

St Mary's Church, Hayling Island

The most noticeable of these is the ancient yew that dominates the church yard, believed to be one of the oldest in the country with a girth of some nine metres.

Stoke, Cheshire East

General James Wolfe, hero of the Battle of Quebec of 1759, is supposed to have spent some of his childhood at Yew Tree House near Verona.

T. cuspidata

Taxus cuspidata, the Japanese yew or spreading yew, a tree species native to Japan, Korea, northeast China and the extreme southeast of Russia

The Singapore Economic Review

The journal has seen contributions from the late John Hicks, Sydney Caine, the late H.G. Johnson, Ragnar Nurkse, H.W. Singer, W.M. Corden, Herbert Grubel, J.C.H. Fei, G. Ranis, Henry Wan, E. J. Mishan, Jerome L. Stein, Jack L. Knetsch, Ng Yew-Kwang, Murray Kemp, Karl Shell, and Ronald I. McKinnon.

Totteridge

The ancient yew tree in the churchyard is about 2,000 years old (as estimated by Kew garden's experts) and is the oldest tree in London (also included in the book "100 Greatest Trees of London).

Yew Tree, West Bromwich

Tamebridge Parkway is only a 5 minute bus or car journey away from Yew Tree, providing frequent trains to Walsall or Birmingham New Street.

Youghal

The name Youghal comes from the Irish Eochaill meaning "yew woods", which were once plentiful in the area.


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