Taxus baccata L.
incl. forma fastigata (Lindley)Pilger
First record: Ray,1660.
Taxus The Yew-tree. Ray,1670:293-4;1677,282.
Martyn,1727,117.
Taxus baccata Common Yew-tree. Hills, Woods, and Hedges. Relhan,1785. Woods, Hedges, and Churchyards. Relhan,1802;1820.
Hedges and churchyards, probably planted. Bab.1860,220.
Perhaps native in Worts' Causeway Wood on the Gogmagog Hills. It has been dug up in the Fens. Evans,1911,248.
There are also 185 records in Recorder, [R].
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Steeple Morden, 292.429, R Payne, 1984.
Guilden Morden, 279.476, R Payne, 1984.
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Gamlingay Heath Wood, very rare, WTKB & JW, 1916.
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Crataegus carr marsh, Bassenhally Pit NR, 285.984, JO Mountford, 31.3.1970.
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Railway verge, Steeple Morden, 316.395, R Payne, 1984.
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forma fastigata, At NW corner of Bassingbourn churchyard, 331.441, PD Sell 87/13 & 14, CP 426/4-8, CS 427/9, 8.4.1987, CGE.
forma fastigata, By the porch of the church of St Peter & St Paul, Bassingbourn, 331.441, PD Sell 87/14, 8.4.1987, CGE.
forma fastigata, Bassingbourn, PD Sell, 1990, [R].
forma baccata, E side of Whaddon churchyard, 349.466, (with spreading branches), PD Sell 87/12, 8.4.1987, CGE.
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Eversden. Bab.1860,220 & Bab.MS.Fl.701.
Caldecot. Bab.1860,220 & Bab.MS.Fl.701.
Comberton. Bab.1860,220 & Bab.MS.Fl.701.
Cleared track within pit & opened up steep chalk bank with Helic pra, Hippocrepis etc seedling Taxus, one, (bird sown). Bush clearing party. Barrington Chalk Pit. SM Walters field notebook. 18.3.1961.
Wimpole Park, 388.512, PD Sell, 29.12.1987.
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Madingley Churchyard. Bab.ann.Relhan,412.
Madingley. Bab.1860,220 & Bab.MS.Fl.701.
36U, GMS Easy, 1970.
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Churchyard, Over, 373.708, R Payne, 1984.
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Ornamental grounds, Chatteris, 395.856, R Payne, 1984.
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Whittlesford. TM. Bab.ann.220.
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Taxus The Yew tree. In cemeteries; as in the walled yard at Barnwell abby. Ray,1660,161-162(116); JM.ann.
Barnwell JM.ann.
Taxus Barnwell Th.M.ann.Meth.-Index Loc.2.
Barnwell Abbey. Bab.1860,220 & Bab.MS.Fl.701.
Perhaps native in Worts' Causeway Wood on the Gogmagog Hills. Evans,1911,248.
Native in the small beechwood on the Gogs, CEM.ann.
Beech wood on Wort's Causeway, regenerating, DH Valentine, 1937; EA George, 1940.
In a small spinney opposite the club house of the Golf Links, Gog Magog Hills, EA George, 1939.
White Hill, Great Shelford, perhaps planted, EA George, 1939.
Shelford, wall, J Rishbeth, 1945.
forma baccata, Grounds of Wandlebury, Gog Magogs, 492.533, PD Sell 88/9 with JG Murrell, 10.2.1988, CGE.
Wall, St John's Wilderness, 1 seedling, J Rishbeth, 1939.
Peterhouse college wall, J Rishbeth, 1940.
On a pollard willow by R. Cam between Cambridge and Grantchester, NW Simmonds, 5.1943.
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Milton woodland, planted and regenerating, GMS Easy, 1969.
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Ornamental grounds, Sutton, 428.796 and 408.703, R Payne, 1984.
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forma baccata, by the track to Pampisford Hall, 513.486, PD Sell 90/35 & JG Murrell, 17.2.1990, CGE.
Large bushy tree, c. 8 x 8ft, bank of Abington by-pass NR, G Crompton, P Daunt & B Jackson, 3.6.2002.
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Fleam Dyke, AGT List.
Churchyard, Balsham, 587.508, R Payne, 1984.
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Small tree 3ft tall, on N side of Devil's Ditch, by footpath opposite Warbraham Farm, G Crompton, 11.2.1973; bushy 6ft tree in Warbraham Farm section, Cttee Walk, 12.7.1978; still growing, 6-7 ft now, Cttee Walk, 4.9.1980; over 7ft now, Cttee Walk, 21.9.1983; gone, probably c. 10 years ago, G Crompton, 2.5.1996.
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Ornamental grounds, [Cherry Hill] Ely, 541.799, R Payne, 1984.
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Churchyard, Littleport, ME Smith, 17.9.1983.
Ornamental grounds, Ely, 543.803, R Payne, 1984.
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Lucy Wood, Kirtling, WT Stearn, 1932.
Stetchworth end, Devil's Ditch, Cttee Walk, 6.1972; AC Leslie, 1981.
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forma baccata, Chippenham Fen, 645.692, PD Sell 61/261, 22.6.1961, CGE
Devil's Ditch, between A.11 and Newmarket railway, AC Leslie, 1981.
forma fastigata, Snailwell churchyard, 642.676, PD Sell & JG Murrell, 7.6.1989, CGE.
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Ornamental grounds, Thorney, 271.082 and 277.009, R Payne, 1984.
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Churchyard, Tydd Gote, 426.165, R Payne, 1984.
