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What (who) is Mexican yew - definition

SPECIES OF PLANT

Mexican yew; Mexican Yew

Yew Tree (ward)

ELECTORAL WARD OF LIVERPOOL CITY COUNCIL

Yew Tree, Liverpool; Yew Tree (ward)

Yew Tree is a Liverpool City Council Ward within the Liverpool West Derby Parliamentary constituency. It borders Knotty Ash and West Derby.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yew_Tree_(ward)

yew

COMMON NAME GIVEN TO VARIOUS SPECIES OF TREES

Yews; Yew tree; Yew-tree; Yew-trees; Yew trees; Yewtrees; Yew (tree)

(yews)

A yew or a yew tree is an evergreen tree. It has sharp leaves which are broad and flat, and red berries.

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Yew is the wood of this tree.

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Yew

COMMON NAME GIVEN TO VARIOUS SPECIES OF TREES

Yews; Yew tree; Yew-tree; Yew-trees; Yew trees; Yewtrees; Yew (tree)

·vi ·see Yaw.

II. Yew ·noun A bow for shooting, made of the yew.

III. Yew ·adj Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock.

IV. Yew ·noun An evergreen tree (Taxus baccata) of Europe, allied to the pines, but having a peculiar berrylike fruit instead of a cone. It frequently grows in British churchyards.

V. Yew ·noun The wood of the yew. It is light red in color, compact, fine-grained, and very elastic. It is preferred to all other kinds of wood for bows and whipstocks, the best for these purposes coming from Spain.

Wikipedia

Taxus globosa

Taxus globosa, the Mexican yew, is an evergreen shrub and one of the eight species of yew. The Mexican yew is a rare species, only known to be found in a small number of locations in eastern Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, and is listed as an endangered species. The Mexican yew is a shrub that grows to an average height of 4.6m. It has large, sharp light green needles growing in ranks on either side of its branches.

There are several projects in order to produce Paclitaxel (an anti-tumor agent) around the world, but Mexican yew has not been as well studied because its low production of Taxol (Bringi et al., 1995) by in vitro plant cell cultures. Few researchers focus their work on this species, the team leader on Taxus globosa S. is perhaps that of Barradas at Veracruz Institute of Technology (Instituto Tecnológico de Veracruz).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxus globosa