Prince Albert's yew

noun

variants or less commonly Prince Albert yew

: a small evergreen tree (Saxe-gothaea conspicua) of the family Taxaceae that resembles the common yews, is native to mountainous southern Chile, and is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental

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