>>1786211
fun facts on the yew โ
>http://www.thepoisongarden.co.uk/blog/blog070312.htm
My belief is that yew had pagan associations with preventing the dead from walking and, as happened with many pagan beliefs, Christianity adopted this as a way of bringing pagans to it. It is said that yew roots form a shallow net that the dead cannot penetrate or that the fine roots grow through the eyes of the dead so they cannot see their way back to the land of the living.
All parts, except the flesh of the berries, contain taxin(e) a complex of alkaloids which is rapidly absorbed. Also present are ephedrine, a cyanogenic glycoside (taxiphyllin) and a volatile oil.
Where poisoning does occur, in animals or humans, there may be no symptoms and death may follow within a few hours of ingestion.
>http://www.thegoddesstree.com/trees/Yew.htm
The Yew is the only living creature biologically capable of living indefinitely.