Yew, Golden Irish
The Golden Irish Yew, is an evergreen conifer, that can grow to a height of 7m, and may live for over 2,000 years, although 1,500 years may be more typical.
The bark is brown-grey with purple tones, and it peels.
This tree was planted for the Millennium in 2000.
Photo supplied by:
Common Name:
Golden Irish Yew
Scentific Name:
Taxus baccata fastigiata aurea
Tree No:
29
Location:
K16
Straight, small, curved needles with a pointed tip, and coloured black-green (darker than common yew). Unlike common yew, the needles grow all around the twig, rather than in rows.
Credit: This could be your image
Reproductive Organs – Male structures are rounded with white-yellow anthers while female structures are bud-like and scaly, and green when young.
Credit: This could be your image
The flowers are pollinated by wind and develop into succulent red fruits with a naked seed inside. The red, fleshy part of the fruit is known as an aril, ripens in autumn.
Credit: This could be your image
Yew is one of the only coniferous species native to the UK.
The Irish yew was originally discovered in County Fermanagh in 1780. All Irish yews descended from cuttings of one tree, and it is thought to be a mutant form of the common yew (Taxus baccata).
Irish yew prefers to grow in well-drained soil and can often be found in church yards. It is also grown for ornamental purposes throughout the UK and is tolerant of exposure and urban pollution.
Yew hedges in particular are incredibly dense, offering protection and nesting opportunities for many birds. The UK’s smallest birds – the goldcrest and firecrest – nest in broadleaf woodland with a yew understorey. The fruit is eaten by birds and small mammals. The leaves are eaten by caterpillars of moths.
Yew timber is incredibly strong and durable and traditionally the wood was used to make long bows.
The Irish yew is the tree that supplied the English bowmen who were victorious at the battles of Crécy, Agincourt and Poitiers with their weapon, the longbow. They were cut from a Yew log using both the sap wood on the outside and the heart wood on the inside, as Yew sap wood is only strong in tension while the heart wood is strong in compression, thus creating the phenomenal power of the longbow.
Optional Content.
Tree Listings
Western Red Cedar
Cedar, Western Rad The Western Red Cedar, is an giant evergreen conifer, that can grow to a height of 65m, and may live for 1,000's of years, with several examples in existance that over 1,500 years old. It is tall and conical in shape, with a broad trunk and dense...
Japanese Red Cedar
Cedar, Japanese Red The Japanese Red Cedar, is an evergreen conifer, that can grow to a height of 65m, and may live for 350 years. The bark is grey and stringy and tears off in long strips on mature trees..Photo supplied by:Common Name:Japanese Red Cedar Scentific...
Deodar Cedar
Cedar, Deodar The Deodar Cedar, is a fine textured evergreen conifer, that can grow to a height of 50m, and may live for 1,000 years.These two Deodars were probably planted well before the Gardens opened in 1888.Photo supplied by:Common Name:Deodar Cedar Scentific...
Blue Atlas Cedar
Cedar, Blue Atlas The Blue Atlas Cedar, is a showy evergreen conifer, that can grow to a height of 35m, and may live for 150 years. The trees are pyramidical while young but with age become flat topped with horizontal branches. The bark is blackish-brown with closely...
Silver Birch
Birch, Silver The Silver birch, is a striking broadleaved deciduous tree, that can grow to a height of 30m, and may live for 150 years, although 60 to 90 years may be more typical. Forming a light canopy with elegant drooping branches. The silver-white bark sheds...
Cut Leaf Beech
Beech, Cut Leaf Content to follow. Photo supplied by: Alan PayneCommon Name:Cut Leaf Beech Scentific Name:Fagus sylvatica heterophylla asplenifoliar Tree No:186 Location:D7Content to follow. Credit: This could be your image Content to follow....
Copper Beech
Beech, Copper The Copper beech, also known as purple beech, is a broadleaved deciduous tree, that can grow to a height of more than 40m, and may live for 300 years, although 200 years may be more typical. The bark is smooth, thin and grey, often with slight horizontal...
Common Beech
Beech, Common The Common Beech, is a charismatic and beautiful broadleaved deciduous tree, that can grow to a height of more than 40m, and may live for 350 years, although 250 years may be more typical. The bark is smooth, thin and grey, often with slight horizontal...
Common Ash
Ash, Common The Common Ash, is a broadleaved deciduous tree, that can grow to a height of 35m, and may live for 350 years, although 200 years may be more typical.Tall and graceful, they often grow together, forming a domed canopy. The bark is pale grey-brown and...
Crab Apple
Apple, Crab The Crab Apple Tree, one of the ancestors of the cultivated apple, is a broadleaved deciduous tree, that can grow to a height of 12 m, and may live for 100 years.They have an irregular rounded shape and a wide spreading canopy. With greyish brown flecked...
Auto Draft
Page Title Overview text Diffent points following a single enter.Photo supplied by:Common Name:Xxx Scentific Name:Xxx Tree No:00 Location:X0Content to follow. Credit: This could be your image Content to follow. Credit: This could be your image...