Irish yew

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noun

1. a variety of yew, Taxus baccata stricta, of Eurasia and northern Africa, having upright branches and dark green foliage with color variations.

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Irish yew

San Francisco businessmen traditionally decorate downtown Union Square with 16 tall Irish yew trees, each festooned with hundreds of colored lights.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Irish yew must have been indigenous here, for the name of Youghal, Father Keller tells me, in Irish signifies “the wood of yew-trees.”

From Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) by Hurlbert, William Henry

The one feature that struck him with a sense of incongruity was a small Irish yew, thin and black, which stood out like an outpost of the shrubbery, through which the maze was approached.

From Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories by James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)

Presently she tore across the lawn to the shrubbery which screened the lawn and flower gardens from the winding carriage drive sunk many feet below, and disappeared in a thicket of arbutus and Irish yew.

From Phantom Fortune, a Novel by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

A seedling from the fastigate or upright Irish yew is described as differing greatly from the parent-form "by the exaggeration of the fastigate habit of its branches."

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles