Taxus baccata; ‘Yew’

Taxus baccata is an evergreen native to Britain much of Europe and Part of Asia and Africa, a conifer tree growing to 15 meters with a slow growing rate.

Yew trees prefer to grow in well drained soils and don’t like to grow in wet or water logged soils, this is why Yew trees often grow in sandy of chalky soils which offer good drainage.

Yew trees are hardy when it comes to soil Ph. And can handle the extremes of both acid and alkali soils.

Taxus baccata are very tolerant of trimming and can easily be cut into hedges, the trees are often grown into topiary.

The Yew tree is entirely poisonous except from the red fruits which help feed many animals but mainly birds.

This Yew was found underneath the canopy of an mature scots pine, its looked healthy and were a number of Yew trees under Scots pine.