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Old 10-Apr-2007   #4
ElGringo
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Originally Posted by AMKhalid
Yews are truly amazing trees... in recent years they also isolated a cancer-fighting drug from the bark of pacific yews... but turns out the drug (Taxol) actually came from a symbiotic fungi that was living between the wood and the bark.
Too bad they grow so damn slow.

Another good reason to stop cutting down and building over everything.
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