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

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

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Darwin, Charles

The wainscots were of Irish yew, and the ceilings of cypress.

From The Great Book-Collectors by Elton, Charles Isaac

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)