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30-04-2003, 01:08 PM

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so who are you going to teach to suck the fruit off and not eat the
seed? listen,
our birds dont even eat em. that says it all for me. the plant is
poisonous!!!!!!

Birds here certainly do eat yew berries; the poisonous seed passes
through their digestive system whole (so the bird is not affected) and
when the bird shits that's where a new yew germinates.

Plants poisonous to one species aren't necessarily to others, because
of physiological differences.I don't think I'd worry about pond fish
eating yew fruit/seed.

Janet (Scotland).