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| Taxus baccata (European yew) shoot with mature and immature cones | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Gymnospermae |
| Division: | Pinophyta |
| Class: | Pinopsida |
| Order: | Cupressales |
| Family: | Taxaceae |
| Genus: | Taxus L. |
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| Taxus baccata | |
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Taxus is a genus of coniferous trees or shrubs known as yews in the family Taxaceae.[1] Yews occur around the globe in temperate zones of the northern hemisphere, northernmost in Norway and southernmost in the South Celebes. Some populations exist in tropical highlands.[2]
The oldest known fossil species are from the Early Cretaceous.[3]
- ^ "Taxus L." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2023. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
GynoDataBasewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Xu, Xiao-Hui; Sun, Bai-Nian; Yan, De-Fei; Wang, Jin; Dong, Chong (May 2015). "A Taxus leafy branch with attached ovules from the Lower Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, North China". Cretaceous Research. 54: 266–282. Bibcode:2015CrRes..54..266X. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2014.12.014. ISSN 0195-6671.