When USDA botanist Arthur Barclay collected a sample of bark from the Pacific yew tree in Washington State in 1962, he had no way of knowing that the sample would yield one of the most important ...

BENEATH those rugged elms, that yew-tree’s shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould’ring heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. It is the loveliest ...

ILLAHEE — The reign of a contender for the title of oldest Pacific Yew tree in the United States came to an end this winter at Illahee State Park. The yew's gnarled, bubbly bark and green limbs — ...

It's never too late in life to make a change, even if you're reputed to be 5,000 years old. A yew tree of that age -- dubbed the "Fortingall Yew" and one of the oldest trees in Europe -- has been ...

Worshipped by the Druids for its longevity, the Common Yew is typically found in churchyards, its soft wood used over ...

In this weekly series, readers tell us about their favourite trees. This week: a yew in Wales When Ieuan Morris, a film history lecturer, wandered through St Peter’s churchyard in Llanbedr-Ystrad-Yw, ...

The ancient,sacred,regenerative,death-defying yew treehttps: It might be the oldest tree in Britain. A yew tree that sprawls over a churchyard in Wales is more than 5,000 years old, according to ...