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Manual of the Southeastern Flora - Small
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FAMILY 3. TAXACEAE - YEW FAMILY


Evergreen shrubs or trees, mostly destitute of resin, the buds scaly. Leaves distichously spreading: blades narrow, entire. Staminate ament mostly few-flowered, with scaly involucres. Ovulate ament most 1-flowered, the carpellary scale wanting. Cone baccate or drupaceous, wholly or partially enclosed by a pulpy cup-like aril. - About 12 genera, widely distributed. Many kinds are used in ornamental horticulture.