The Japanese yew, scientific name taxus cuspidata, is a member of the yew genus and native to Japan, Korea, northeastern China, and southeastern Russia.
Also known as spreading yew, it is a large evergreen tree or shrub that grows 10 to 18 meters tall.
The leaves are arranged in a spiral on the stem, lanceolate, flattened, dark green, with the base of the leaves twisted to adjust their rows.
The entire yew bush, except for the aril (the red flesh of the berry that covers the seed), is poisonous because it contains a group of chemicals called taxine alkaloids.
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