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"Taxus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... oaks spread their branches above cliffs and summits, where in less favored climes only the cold pine would be able to find a scanty subsistence; while the spray of the Black Sea is dashed against the immense stems of the blood-wooded taxus, and the red and almond-leaved willows sweep with their long branches the waves. The box here is a giant of the forest; the stern of the juniper measures often fifteen feet in circumference; and the vine climbing to the top of the lofty elm sends its tendrils across ...
— Life of Schamyl - And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia • John Milton Mackie
... "The Totara Tree (Taxus or Podocarpus totara). Height, eighty to ninety feet. The wood is red in colour, close, straight, fine and even in grain . . . a good ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris |
Words linked to "Taxus" : gymnosperm genus, Japanese yew, western yew, California yew, Taxus cuspidata, Taxaceae, family Taxaceae, Florida yew, English yew, Old World yew, Pacific yew, yew family, Taxus floridana |
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