Tag: Fortingall Yew

Yew trees, the Canaries and a Darwinian Connection in a Perthshire Churchyard

The kirkyard at Fortingall in Perthshire has, for several centuries, been a magnet for tourists with an arboricultural bent – for the sake of its ancient yew. This…

Have I Got News for Yew

The idea that a story about a male yew tree producing a female branch would go viral and attract massive media attention would have seemed highly unlikely a…

Oldest yew tree switches sex

The Fortingall Yew in Perthshire is a tree of international renown as potentially the oldest individual tree in Europe. It has been suggested that it could be as…