Yew is any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus;the English yew is Taxus baccata,a tree with a dual personality.This evergreen can live for millennia.Characteristically it continues to grow by rooting its branches and forming a grove around itself.The yew is capable of apparent death and resurrection;there are many reports of old,haggard and injured yews that suddenly sprout again and put on new growth.Sitting inside a hollow yew you feel the weight of centuries.The oldest wooden artifact known is a yew spear,found near Clacton,more than 250,000 years old.What better representation than the yew of rebirth and eternal life!
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