the Botanical name - Taxus baccata
The English name - Yew
Coniferous tree from family of the yew. Grows across all Average and Southern Europe, more often on dry limy soil. All components of a tree are poisonous, except fruits. Meets also on the Azores, in Algeria, in Forward Asia and on the Cupid. Within many centuries the yew was specially grown up in England - of it did onions. Because of it England now is the largest supplier of yew logs.
Zabolon' and a core of wood a yew strongly differ from each other. A core brown, from red-brown and to oranzhevo-brown colour. The characteristic sign of wood of a yew is so-called pepper (tiny black points, in an ideal grouped on a surface). Year layers are very narrow and look as wide, dark rings.
Yew wood is very strong and goes on various joiner's hand-made articles. Because of the small sizes, propensity to internal checking and occurrence of outgrowths, wood very rare and, accordingly, very expensive. The yew dries easily and processed. For finishing works any materials approach.
Volume weight in an air-dry condition: about 600 kg/cubic metres