Stuck on a translation: Тиссы

[Olia Prokopenko]

I think it is "тисс", not "тисса". Try to google the masculine form.
OP


On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Andrea Gregovich <agregovich at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello Everyone!
>
> I'm back to translating the story about the Siberian writer who takes a
> trip to Oxford, which this list was so helpful with last time I asked.  Now
> I can't figure out a kind of tree he mentions: "огромные тиссы с
> подробнейшей, отчетливо прописанной корой."  Usually I track down his
> unfamiliar flora on the internet through a combination of image searches
> and broader googling of Latin genus species, which mostly come up easily
> when I search his original Russian terms, but this one isn't cooperating.
> There are apparently a lot of people, places and things called "Tissa"
> around the world.  I do get images of the trees and some Latin names, but
> there are enough discrepancies and never a positive ID on a good English
> wiki or science-minded site that I'm unsure what they should be called in
> English.
>
> Are these Oxford trees really just called "Tissa" trees?  Are there any
> other names for them that I might recognize?
>
> Thanks!
> Andrea Gregovich
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