7/x Yew trees were also a favoured (very hard) wood for #LongBows and #Spears, from #prehistoric times right to the middle ages and beyond. Even now, the German bowmaker Ulli Stehli travels to the #Uetli forest in #Switzerland to get #Yew wood for his bows

https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/104216/

https://www.waldwissen.net/de/lebensraum-wald/baeume-und-waldpflanzen/nadelbaeume/die-eibe-ein-baum-voller-magie