Taxon: Taxus baccata L.

Common names:

• English yew   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• European yew   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – English
  
• yew   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• Eibe   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  
• tiss âgodnyj   (Source: F Baltic ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• tiss evropejskij   (Source: F Baltic ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• idegran   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Lampe & McCann; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Taxus baccata from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Iran; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland [s.w.]; Ireland; Norway [s.]; Sweden [s.]; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Germany; Hungary; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Ukraine - Krym
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Macedonia; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal [n.]; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• also cultivated

References:

• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Cannon, J. & M. Cannon. 1994. Dye plants and dyeing. The Herbert Press & The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. [poisonous].
• Cope, E. A. 1998. Taxaceae: the genera and cultivated species. Bot. Rev. (Lancaster) 64:307.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Farjon, A. 1998. World checklist and bibliography of conifers.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. [= subsp. wallichiana (Zucc.) Pilg.].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 4:438.
• Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Laasimer, L. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of the Baltic countries; compendium of vascular plants.
• Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. [poisonous].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Taxus baccata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Taxus baccata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Taxus baccata.

Synonyms:

• (=) Taxus baccata var. aurea Carrière
  
• (=) Taxus baccata var. fastigiata (Lindl.) Loudon
  
• (=) Taxus baccata var. fastigiata-aurea Sénéclauze
  
• (=) Taxus baccata var. washingtonii (R. Sm.) Beissn.
  
• (=) Taxus canadensis var. washingtonii R. Sm.
  
• (=) Taxus fastigiata Lindl.
  

Check other web resources for Taxus baccata L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Gymnosperm Database of Christopher J. Earle
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Taxus baccata cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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