Taxus twig with cone

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Taxus
COMMON NAME: Common Yew , English Yew or European Yew
CLASSIFICATION: Kingdom : Plantae
Division : Pinophyta
Class : Pinopsida
Order : Cupressales
Family : Taxaceae
Genus :Taxus

CHARACTERS:
-Taxus plant is dioecious, male plants produce small and pollen producing
cones and females produce single seeded fleshy cones. -The male cones are globose and shed their pollen in early spring.
- The female cone in an aril that is a fleshy outgrowth of the stalk that bears
a seed.
-The seed and the aril look like a berry.
-Birds eat arils and disperse the seeds