Emerging infectious diseases in animals that are caused by fungi that you may have heard or read about include white-nose ...

Canada yew (Taxus canadensis) is an understory shrub typically found in late successional forests. This gymnosperm is very shade tolerant and will often form dense layers near the forest floor. Canada ...

While some maintain that birds do not eat fruits of this kind, others hold that they eat only the surrounding pulp, as of the berries of Taxus, which is perfectly harmless, whereas the seed is ...

A coroner has warned against eating wild berries and leaves after a boy who ate some in a park collapsed and died. Benn Curran-Nicholls, 14, ingested yew tree berries, which contain poisonous ...