brevifolia when it appeared that bark from the tree would be needed in large amounts.) The goal of the environmentalists was not to ensure that there would continue to be sufficient Pacific yew to ...

Previously, paclitaxel was extracted from the bark of the Pacific yew, a slow growing Pacific Northwest tree, by stripping the bark of the tree. To make the medicine effective, it required an average ...

Every single part of the Pacific yew is poisonous, in many cases proving potentially lethal to both humans and livestock.

The California Coastal Yew tree is, well, a tree that grows on the California coast and on up into the Pacific northwest a ...