Whoa ... yew seedlings

Woost2
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Whoa ... yew seedlings

Postby Woost2 » Thu Feb 25, 2016 3:56 pm


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Re: Whoa ... yew seedlings

Postby hoopoe » Thu Feb 25, 2016 4:45 pm

yes Yew is highly toxic

it is where we got the drug Taxol from

Taxol brevifolia

In Erna Gunthers "Ethnobotany of Puget Sound" the native people recognized the high potency of the plant and said it was only for the most experienced medicine person and not widely used because of its toxicity


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