Taxus baccata

Botanical Hill, Nelson.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 03/02/2009, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Fruit, Te Puke.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Juvenile showing spirally arranged leaves; Bushy Park.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 16/01/2015, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Showing petiolate leaves, Bushy Park, Wanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 16/01/2015, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Taxus baccata showing petiolate leaves, Bushy Park, Wanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 16/01/2015, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Poisonous plant

Common name

yew

Family

Taxaceae

Authority

Taxus baccata L.

Flora category

Vascular – Exotic

Structural class

Trees & Shrubs - Gymnosperms

NVS code

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TAXBAC

Brief description

Leaves petiolate, which provide a ready means of distinguishing young plants of yew from miro (Prumnopitys ferruginea) in which each leaf lamina is continuous with the stem at its base. Poisonous.

Flowering

Dioecious

Fruiting

Seed is surrounded by a fleshy red aril

Year naturalised

1968

Origin

Europe, N. Africa, W. Asia E. to Himalaya

Reason for introduction

Ornamental and for hedging. Poisonous

Poisonous plant:
All parts of this plant are poisonous including the red “berries” with the green seed.

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