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Is this a new type? Haven’t seen red ones before!
Friendly reminder, this plant is very poisonuos.
My brother and I ate these every year when we were little. They taste just like sugar water. When we got older we were told these are toxic. I am so grateful we never experienced anything negative. I remember only eating the fruit and spitting the seeds like cherry pits.
Yew got me there
I see what yew did there
Money doesn’t grow on trees
They grow on bushes? No wonder earbud covers taste so good!
Oh you…
“Manufacturer hates this plant. Click to see more”
Tasty red olives
Don’t eat those
Should i wait them to over ripe to get the black ones?
…comes with a lifetime guarantee…
https://burialsandbeyond.com/2019/08/31/the-yew-tree-of-the-dead/
My grandma once saw me changing my bud covers and was worried to all hell that I’m taking drugs. She thought they were shrooms.
Midwest?
They taste like burning
Yew joker.
Oh! We had this tree in our yard when I was little! I made ‘ soups ‘ with them
They must get dark when they ripen.
[I swallowed the one Yew berry](https://youtu.be/27Ra2bxZsGk)
Japanese Yew is poisonous.
I had those on both sides of the porch of my childhood home. I never saw the birds eating the berries or nesting in the bushes, but we had THOUSANDS of mosquitoes every summer thanks to them!
I tore them out one spring and put in a rock garden to fill the void left behind. I never knew what they were even called.
We used to call those glue-berries.. some sticky weird substance in those, why would you want to put that in your mouth!?
Yew sure did.
What’s the name of this tree and why are they always around churches and graveyards?
Bro u dutch? This photo just hit me like a freight train of nostalgia!
I’m not convinced they are poisonous, I see deer eating them all the time .
Yew are kidding.
We used to moosh em up and then someone would get a cup of slime attack. Or with a large pixie stick tube you could have some excellent self powered paintball battles. Had to be creative before dialup kicked in.
Grew up in the 80s on the south side of Chicago. I remember these being everywhere. We were taught to be afraid of them. I remember thinking the red part was poisonous too. That did not stop them from being pretty common projectiles in the neighborhood. If you winged them hard enough, they’d splat someone pretty good, which was nice if they were wearing something nice or even better, if you nailed them right in their glasses.
Fun Yew Fact: in Britain, yew trees are commonly found in churchyards. Most people think this is because livestock avoid yew trees so they keep them out of the graveyard, but that’s actually false. In fact, yew trees were sacred to the ancient Britions. When Christianity took hold, they deliberately built churches on the sites of yew trees to ‘take over’ the sacred site, in a similar way that seasonal festivals like Yule and Easter were co-opted.
The berry is actually quite tasty, if you chew the seed it has the bonus effect of killing you