Male Yew Tree Flowers

Not the most brilliantly focused picture I've ever taken, but the wind was blowing (well, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it). These male Yew flowers were growing on a tree in a local churchyard. Like Holly, the male and female Yew flowers grow on separate trees. The male flowers are small and yellow and shed their pollen around about February. The red berries develop on female trees. Yew is well known for its association with places of burial. Many churchyards, like this one, have ancient Yew trees growing in them and as some are over 1500 years old, they must have been growing there before Christianity arrived in the area.