The fresh fruit of Taxus chinensis has a short shelf life after picking, and the pulp will rot soon. It can be used to soak wine before it decays. Soak white wine with the ratio of fresh fruit 2: wine 5, and you can drink it after one week. The dried fruit of Taxus chinensis is a good product, which can be drunk in wine or water according to the ratio of 1: 4, and can also be used for soup and porridge, just like Lycium barbarum.
The dried fruits of Taxus chinensis are all in circulation in the market, because fresh fruits are perishable. The dried Taxus chinensis is processed before the fresh fruit decays, which has no loss of nutrition and is convenient for preservation and trading.
(Japanese) yew
Taxus plants are evergreen trees or shrubs, dioecious and cross-pollinated. Cones are small, solitary in leaf axils and open in early spring. Male cones are heads with stalks and scales at the base, stamens 6- 14, peltate, and each stamen has 4-9 anthers. The female cone has a terminal ovule, a discoid receptacle at the base and several bracts at the lower part. Seeds nutlike, spherical, inserted in red fleshy cup-shaped aril, mature in that year.
This genus has about 1 1 species, with evergreen leaves, dark green leaves and red aril, which is quite beautiful. It is an excellent ornamental shrub, which can be used as a landscape tree and a Christmas wreath. The sapwood of this genus is narrow, which is obviously different from heartwood. It has no resin channels and resin cells, uniform texture, fine structure, high hardness, strong corrosion resistance and strong toughness. It is an excellent material for buildings, bridges, furniture and equipment.