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California nutmeg, Torreya californica, nutmeg-yew
California evergreen having a fruit resembling a nutmeg but with a strong turpentine flavor
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Torrey tree, Torreya taxifolia, stinking cedar, stinking yew
rare small evergreen of northern Florida; its glossy green leaves have an unpleasant fetid smell when crushed
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English yew, Old World yew, Taxus baccata
predominant yew in Europe; extraordinarily long-lived and slow growing; one of the oldest species in the world
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California yew, Pacific yew, Taxus brevifolia, western yew
small or medium irregularly branched tree of the Pacific coast of North America; yields fine hard close-grained wood
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Japanese yew, Taxus cuspidata
shrubby hardy evergreen of China and Japan having lustrous dark green foliage; cultivated in the eastern United States
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Florida yew, Taxus floridana
small bushy yew of northern Florida having spreading branches and very narrow leaves
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Austrotaxus spicata, New Caledonian yew
large yew native to New Caledonia; cultivated in eastern Australia and New Zealand and Hawaii
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Pseudotaxus chienii, white-berry yew
yew of southeastern China, differing from the Old World yew in having white berries
