Yew

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Contents 1 Botany 2 Place names 3 Fictional place names 4 Others

Yew may refer to:

[edit] Botany

• Any of various coniferous trees and shrubs in the genus Taxus:
  • European Yew or Common Yew (Taxus baccata)
  • Pacific Yew or Western Yew (Taxus brevifolia)
  • Canadian Yew (Taxus canadensis)
  • Chinese Yew (Taxus chinensis)
  • Japanese Yew (Taxus cuspidata)
  • Florida Yew (Taxus floridana)
  • Mexican Yew (Taxus globosa)
  • Sumatran Yew (Taxus sumatrana)
  • Himalayan Yew (Taxus wallichiana)
• Any of various coniferous plants in the families Taxaceae and Cephalotaxaceae:
  • White-berry Yew (Pseudotaxus chienii)
  • New Caledonian Yew or Southern Yew (Austrotaxus spicata)
  • Catkin-yew (Amentotaxus sp.)
  • Plum-yew (Cephalotaxus sp.)
• Any of the various coniferous plants in the family Podocarpaceae, which are superficially similar to other yews:
  • Prince Albert's Yew (Saxegothaea conspicua)
  • Plum-yew (Prumnopitys sp.)

[edit] Place names

• in Singapore:
  • Yew Tee, district
  • Yew Tee MRT Station
  • Yew Lian Park
• in the United Kingdom
  • Yew Tree, Liverpool
  • Yew Tree Tarn, a lake in the Lake District
  • Yew Tree, West Bromwich
  • Kenn Church, Kenn Pier & Yew Tree Farm SSSI,

[edit] Fictional place names

• Yew Dales (Ýdalir), the home of Ull, the winter god in Norse mythology
• Yew, a city-state in the fictional Ultima universe

[edit] Others

• You (disambiguation)
• Ewe (disambiguation)

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