Talk:Taxus

What about the Drug Eluting Stent Taxus, there should be a link to that article

yew wood

does this particular wood darken over time? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.227.238.252 (talk) 06:18, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Google says yes, ðough considering how long it's been since you asked, you probably already know. IndigoGollum (talk) 19:05, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Taxol

pacific yew was never commercially harvested to manufacturer taxol, your information is erroneous, research furthur you'll see for yourself the himalayan yew is the only harvested (almost to extinction) tree for taxol, pharmaceutical use. Even though the two yew species belong to the same genus, they're vastly different in their qualities, which is why the pacific yew was never commercially harvested. (removed from the main text) Valleyofdawn (talk) 09:08, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Needless disambiguation page?

Should http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yew be merged in with this article? If you want general info about Yew this page is much more useful than the disambiguation page. Cam Forman (talk) 04:17, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Species problems sections

I've tagged out these two sections as they don't appear to be neutrally written or balanced. if they should be retained should it be here or should it be moved to a separate article and rewritten?--Kevmin § 15:05, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Uses and Traditions : Bows

As things stand, this section does not flow logically. "British yews tend to be too gnarly, and thus the wood for English longbows used at the Battle of Agincourt was imported from Spain or northern Italy." This is great, if it were not directly contradicted two sentences later "Most longbow wood used in northern Europe was imported from Iberia, where climatic conditions are better for growing the knot-free yew wood required. The yew longbow was the critical weapon used by the English in the defeat of the French cavalry at the Battle of Agincourt, 1415." This seems to imply that the wood in these bows came from Iberia and not Italy.

Further the sentence "Chalcolithic mummy found in 1991 in the Italian Alps, carried an unfinished bow made of yew wood. Consequently, it is not surprising that in Norse mythology, the abode of the god of the bow..." It is difficult for me to understand how the consequences of finding a mummy in the 1990's should result in the worship of yew wood for bow making a thousand years or more prior. Pyrpoi (talk) 15:17, 20 August 2022 (UTC)