Taxus baccataL.

common yew

WFO wfo-0000408637 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Taxus baccata, photographed by Jon Mortin
fig. a Jon Mortin, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 204948752
Taxus baccata, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. b Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203934750
Taxus baccata, photographed by Zeke Marshall
fig. c Zeke Marshall, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201511564
Taxus baccata, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. d Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203952438
Taxus baccata, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. e Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202821499
Taxus baccata, photographed by Stephen James McWilliam
fig. f Stephen James McWilliam, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197441974
Taxus baccata, photographed by Zeke Marshall
fig. g Zeke Marshall, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197431178
Taxus baccata, photographed by Stephen James McWilliam
fig. h Stephen James McWilliam, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197451198

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Also published as 73 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cephalotaxus adpressa Beissn.
  • Cephalotaxus brevifolia Beissn.
  • Cephalotaxus tardiva Siebold ex Endl.
  • Taxus adpressa Carrière
  • Taxus aurea K.Koch
  • Taxus baccata f. aurea Pilg.
  • Taxus baccata f. dovastoniana (Leight.) Rehder
  • Taxus baccata f. elegantissima (C.Lawson) Beissn.
  • Taxus baccata f. erecta (Loudon) Pilg.
  • Taxus baccata f. ericoides Pilg.
  • Taxus baccata f. expansa Rehder
  • Taxus baccata f. glauca (Jacques ex Carrière) Beissn.
  • Taxus baccata f. linearis Beissn.
  • Taxus baccata f. lutea Rehder
  • Taxus baccata f. pendula (J.Nelson) Pilg.
  • Taxus baccata f. pendula-graciosa Beissn.
  • Taxus baccata f. pyramidalis (C.Lawson) Beissn.
  • Taxus baccata f. repandens Rehder
  • Taxus baccata f. semperaurea Rehder
  • Taxus baccata f. stricta Rehder
  • Taxus baccata f. variegata (Weston) Rehder
  • Taxus baccata f. xanthocarpa Kuntze
  • Taxus baccata var. adpressa-aurea A.Henry
  • Taxus baccata var. cavendishii Hornibr.

and 49 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.