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Botanical details
- Family
- Taxaceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Genus
Taxus
- Genus description
Taxus are small evergreen trees or large shrubs of rounded habit, with dense, linear leaves, insignificant flowers and, on female plants, conspicuous fleshy red arils surrounding the solitary seeds
- Name status
Accepted
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