What is the common name of Taxus Baccata?
Taxus baccata Taxus baccata Taxus baccata is a conifer native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia. It is the tree originally known as yew, though with other related trees becoming known, it may now be known as common yew, English yew, or European yew. The word "yew" is from Proto-Germanic "*īwa-", possibly originally a loanword from Gaulish "*ivos", compare Breton "ivin," Irish "ēo", Welsh "ywen", French "" (see Eihwaz for a discussion). "Baccata" is Latin for "bearing red berries". The word "yew" as it was originally used seems to refer to the color brown. The
Yucca baccata Yucca baccata Yucca baccata (datil yucca or banana yucca) is a common species of yucca native to the deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, from southeastern California north to Utah, east to western Texas and south to Sonora and Chihuahua. It is also reported in the wild in Colombia. The species gets its common name "banana yucca" from its banana-shaped fruit. The specific epithet "baccata" means "with berries." Banana yucca is closely related to the Mojave yucca ("Y. schidigera"), with which it is interspersed where their ranges overlap; hybrids between them occur. "Yucca baccata" is recognized by