wi quiz

[ffen]

32. the graveyard tree(7)
answers are all trees its not yew tree, last one any ideas appreciated, its got to be sent in soon.

[spitza]

Cypress?
regards

[ffen]

thanks spitza can you say why?

[dundurn]

Presume it's from the connection to death, as in the following. I think it must have been used to make coffins.

Come away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid;
Fly away, fly away breath;
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,
O, prepare it!
My part of death, no one so true
Did share it.
Twelfth Night, Shakespeare

[ffen]

thanks dundurn seems as though thats it,really enjoyed your answer

[spitza]

In Chambers it says its branches used to be carried at funerals
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