Deadly beauty

12 Saturday Oct 2019

Posted by Bill Bisgood in Haiku, nature, photo, photography, Poetry

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haiku, nature, photography, poetry, poisonous, tree, yew

On a churchyard favourite

Taxus Baccata
the European yew tree
ancient and deadly

3 thoughts on “Deadly beauty”

Susi Bocks said:

13/10/2019 at 00:52

I remember squishing those red berries when we were younger living in Germany. Never knew the seeds were poisonous!

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- Bill Bisgood said:
  
  13/10/2019 at 11:18
  
  Sounds like a good defence to me!
  
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  - Susi Bocks said:
    
    13/10/2019 at 17:23
    
    Absolutely!

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