[CJ Wolf]

How much needles, straight from the green or on the ground? I have several varieties of pine. Big trees. What’s a yew tree? And short cup?

[HoneysuckleTN]

How much needles, straight from the green or on the ground? I have several varieties of pine. Big trees. What’s a yew tree? And short cup?

From a few YouTube videos I've watched take green needles from the tree, a good handful. Rough chop them, discarding the little brown bits where the needles attach to the tree. Pour near boiling water over the chopped needles, let them steep a while (15 - 20 minutes, or more). Strain out the needles and sweeten to taste if needed.

Yew is poisonous. (So are Ponderosa pines and Norfolk pines, and probably others--I think someone mentioned lodgepole pine upthread. I need to do more research!) From the images I've looked at on DuckDuckGo, yews have short, stubby needles. By "short cup", I think he means you won't survive to drink the whole cup. :(

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=north+american+yew+trees&t=h_&iax=images&ia=images

I grabbed these images from Wikipedia. It's the yew native to North America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxus_canadensis

[xone]

8-10 leaves. A Yew is an evergreen. Will kill you (no pun intended) but you have your Vit C. Short cup is if you drink yew tea, you will probably not get to finish. Socrates and hemlock. yew