Taxus baccata refers to what species of tree?
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 brevifolia species or varieties only if they have different geographically ranges. For example, "T. mairei" var. "speciosa", which occurs with the typical variety in southern China in 10 of 13 provinces, was rejected because “there is no geographic reason” for recognizing it even though it appears genetically distinct. "Taxus brevifolia" var. "reptaneta" has also been proposed to be elevated to subspecies status without justification or explanation. Such a change would likely cause considerable confusion in view of the subspecies rank having already been used in the genus "Taxus" for defining geographically separated subspecies of a single species ("T. baccata"). Further, it