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[affreca]

Yew is one of those plants which gets attributed powers. Grows slow, famous for bows and so forth. I recognized the picture in my dyeing book as "that bush with gooshy red berries" (my method of plant recognition is idiosyncratic, ask me about "yellow driveway weed" someday). Then I couldn't find any until yesterday. First I found some on campus. Then I read that they take forever to grow, so I shouldn't harvest much. Then I realized I had a dead yew bush in my front yard that I'd been meaning to take out.

So I did this morning, and chopped it into pieces. I might still grab some leaves (small amount) from campus, but the wood seems to give a pink color (for me, book says I should have oranges and tans).