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The common yew (Taxus baccata)
dioecious tree that can reach 10 meters high, with trunk up to 1 m in diameter covered by a red-brown bark generally breaking off into thin scales, with pyramidal then irregular cymes. The leaves are linear shiny dark green above, and dull light green below, scattered, spread over 2 opposite rows, arranged on a single plane. The flowers of male feet are in catkins, with 6-15 stamens surrounded by scales peltate, sub-globose and yellowish; and the flowers of the female feet are green, solitary with a few imbricate scales. The succulent fruit is bright red when ripe. The Yew is a species endemic to Algeria. It is quite rare in the Atlas Bliden, Akfadou and Djurdjura, and in the Aurès mountains and Babors. It grows in mountain forests (from 500 to 2500 m) calcareous and siliceous well-watered, it is often located in humid ravines in the undergrowth. The common yew is a species listed on the list of plant species not cultivated protected (JORADP No. 3 of 10 Safar 1433 corresponding as of January 4, 2012). The Yew is a tree of great ornamental interest, protected by legislation Algerian, widely recognized for its heritage value, economical and medicinal.
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Autonomy of the Public Economic Enterprise
10th Anniversary of the International Fund for Agricultural Development
25th Anniversary of the Algerian Stamp
25th Anniversary of Independence
General population and housing census
National Charter
30th Anniversary of the General Union of Algerian Workers UGTA
25th Anniversary of OPEC
International Year of Youth
First National Youth Festival
40th Anniversary of the United Nations UN
30th anniversary of the Revolution 1954-1984
5th National Liberation Front Party Congress
World Year of Communications
30th Anniversary of the Customs Cooperation Council
75th Anniversary of Scouting
26th Anniversary of the Soummam Congress
20th Anniversary of Independence (1962-1982)
International Year of People with Disabilities
12th International Congress of Hydatidology Algiers
Five-Year Plan 1980-1984
World Tourism Conference in Manila
20th Anniversary of OPEC
