Yew tree fruit

[henrya]

Yew is wind pollinated, most if not all of the heavily fruiting plants that have been mentioned are insect pollinated. So perhaps the weather was damp at the time the Yew flowered, and that inhibited successful pollination.

henrya

[wildone]

Thank you Henrya. That sounds the most likely explanation. As an inquisitive being I just wondered why it should be. And of course it might not have been damp everywhere hence the Yew at Ramsey having quite a bit of fruit. Or agan the Yews in Ramsey might have flowered at a slightly different time. Mico climates etc. What an amazing and complicated world we live in.