Yew trees were once widespread throughout Ireland. Irish names for Yew include Iúr and Eó. Mayo is anglicised from ‘Maigh Eó’ ...

Handcrafted wooden bows are commonly built from a combination of sapwood and heartwood from mature yew trees. The sapwood (the white wood that is on the outside of the tree, just below the bark ...

Previously, paclitaxel was extracted from the bark of the Pacific yew, a slow growing Pacific Northwest tree, by stripping the bark of the tree. To make the medicine effective, it required an average ...

Prune hedges in July and September. Though yew trees offer numerous benefits, it is important to know that they are on the list of poisonous plants that look beautiful in a garden. Their seeds, bark, ...

It was paired with the Yew tree, as the twins of the Winter Solstice ... scales are armed with small blunt spines. Bark – Upper regions of the bark has a conspicuous orange color. Brockman, C.F. 1986.

Participants in the Ecorc’Air project are using magnetic particles deposited on tree bark to reveal local traffic pollution ...

Heading a tree means cutting a branch at an essentially random place. Subsequent growth is clustered near the cut. Ripped bark caused by ... such as arborvitae and yew, prune in late spring ...

brevifolia when it appeared that bark from the tree would be needed in large amounts.) The goal of the environmentalists was not to ensure that there would continue to be sufficient Pacific yew to ...

Just before fall hits its full stride, we encounter early bits of color — some to be celebrated, some to be admired, and some ...

One of the Norfolk pine trees at The Block in Port Shepstone has been stripped of its bark. Concerns have been raised over the rise in bark-stripping of trees along the South Coast. One beautiful ...

When we learn to recognise trees, if we learn at all, we normally start with visual clues; the shape of their leaves followed, perhaps, by the texture of their bark or the appearance of their ...

Li Shuying (left) guides fellow disabled women in making tree bark artwork in Arxan, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in March. CHINA DAILY Drawing her inspiration from nature, 60-year-old Li ...