{"id":15226,"date":"2023-08-10T06:39:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T06:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/kasvit\/taxus_brevifolia_pacific_or_western_yew\/"},"modified":"2024-02-27T19:31:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T19:31:10","slug":"taxusbrevifolia","status":"publish","type":"kasvit","link":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/plants\/taxusbrevifolia\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxus brevifolia &#8211; Pacific or Western yew"},"content":{"rendered":"<article role=\"article\" class=\"node node-type-plant node-view-mode-full\">The Pacific yew is native to the Pacific coast of North America, as the name implies. It is a slow-growing shrub or small tree of rather irregular habit. Like the other yews, it is long-lived and can live 400 years. However, it gradually rots and becomes hollow, and the exact age of old specimens is impossible to estimate accurately.<\/p>\n<p>Pacific yew is rare in Finland and is not very common in European nursery catalogues, either. At Mustila there is only a single old shrub, which is low, hardly more than a metre, but seems to thrive. It can be distinguished quite easily from the other yews by its shorter, broader needles.<\/p>\n<p>Taxol, a drug effective in treating cancer, has been extracted from the bark of the Pacific yew but is nowadays produced semi-synthetically, saving the species from near extinction. The native peoples of North America used the hard wood for harpoons and bows, for example.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"keywords\">\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ryhmittely\">Havupuut<\/li>\n<li class=\"plants\"><a href=\"\" hreflang=\"und\">Taxus<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"plants\"><a href=\"\" hreflang=\"und\">Taxus brevifolia<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"location\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/alueet\/alppiruusulaakso\" hreflang=\"fi\">Alppiruusulaakso<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","alueet":[1006],"kasvilajit":[1086,1238],"class_list":["post-15226","kasvit","type-kasvit","status-publish","hentry","alueet-alppiruusulaakso-en","kasvilajit-conifers","kasvilajit-taxus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kasvit\/15226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kasvit"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kasvit"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"alueet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/alueet?post=15226"},{"taxonomy":"kasvilajit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kasvilajit?post=15226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}