Thread: Bay leaf & Yew
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Old 22-08-2010, 07:21 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Bay leaf & Yew

Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article ,
Sambo wrote:

I don't know Steve, we had a cow that ate a little yew...it
died....then a fox ate the cows eyeball....and it also died...I
don't know how far down the foodchain it went on for as I wasn't
paying attention after that...lol!!


All living creatures die, eventually. No, yew is not that poisonous,
despite the tales of Shakespeare and old wives.

The cow's-eye bit I have filed under "Well, I wouldn't have believed it
if I hadn't read it in the Daily Mail." But I wouldn't mess with the
stuff.

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Mike.