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Yews
The rated Taxus records split: 0 fire-resistant, 1 keep-away, 3 in documented conflict. These counts describe the cited records — 6 records carrying 26 evidence rows from 13 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.
Rated as a group: Yew Taxus sp. Keep away Limited evidence 4 sources rate the genus as a
whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never
override a species record.
› Documented conflict
3 species
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English yew Documented conflict Taxus baccata -
Japanese yew Documented conflict Taxus cuspidata -
Anglojapanese yew Documented conflict Taxus xmedia
Awaiting evidence
2 species
- Taxus brevifolia Awaiting evidence Taxus brevifolia
- Taxus floridana Awaiting evidence Taxus floridana
About yews
Corpus context. Taxus is the directory's #136 largest of 550 genus groups: 6 records carrying 26 evidence rows from 13 cited sources, recorded as shrub, tree , hardy across USDA zones 5–5. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.
More about Taxus: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.