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Japanese yew, the plant blamed for killing eight elk in the Boise Foothills two weeks ago, wiped out a herd of pronghorn in Payette, Idaho Fish and Game reports. The toxic shrub killed 50 ...
QUESTION: I have a question about Japanese yews. There are 12 yews about 8-feet tall planted about 4 feet apart in a circular pattern in about a 15-foot diameter. This is a long established garden.
Seven elk were found dead in the Boise foothills on Tuesday after apparent poisoning from eating Japanese yew, said Idaho Fish & Game officer Bill London.
The Japanese fir (Abies firma) is listed for our Zone 9 climate, and it grows at Stephen F. Austin State University's Mast Arboretum in Nacogdoches. It seems worthy of trying here, but your ...
Japanese yew is an ornamental yard plant known for killing off deer and elk in winter By Travis Hall Feb 20, 2025. An elk calf that died after eating a poisonous yard plant used in landscaping.
An ornamental plant showed its lethal side earlier this year when at least five elk calves died after eating Japanese yew in a Montana community south of Missoula. The highly toxic, nonnative ...
A question for Dan Gill: I have some Japanese yew shrubs that are a couple of years old that I planted to serve as a screen on my property line. Several of them have developed some disease or ...
They ate a Japanese yew, which is a non-native plant. It's not the first time that something like this has happened. In Idaho ...
Answer: It's podocarpus, a.k.a. Japanese yew.Here's the info from our Texas Gardening Book.It's a good evergreen for North Texas but is not used very much. Name: Podocarpus (false Japanese yew ...
Height: 2 to 3 feet Spread: 3 to 4 feet Hardiness: Zones 4-7 Origin: Asia This isn’t the same old yew of yesteryear. The dwarf golden Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata ‘Nana Aurescens’) is a ...
Japanese plum yew offers solutions to many landscape problems: deep shade, evergreen, groundcover, deer resistant, drought-resistant, takes pruning, needs little pruning, clay soils, heat-tolerant ...