Which native British tree has the Latin name 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
Taxus baccata yew (μίλος) was known to Theophrastus, who noted its preference for mountain coolness and shade, its evergreen character and its slow growth. Most Romance languages, with the notable exception of French (if), kept a version of the Latin word "taxus" (Italian "tasso", Corsican "tassu", Occitan "teis", Catalan "teix", Gasconic "tech", Spanish "tejo", Portuguese "teixo", Galician "teixo" and Romanian "tisă") from the same root as "toxic". In Slavic languages, the same root is preserved: Russian "tis" ("тис"), Slovakian "tis", Slovenian "tisa", Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian "tisa"/"тиса". Albanian borrowed it as "tis". In German it is known as "Eibe". In Iran, the tree is known