Stuck on a translation: Тиссы

[Steve Marder]

Yes, “тисс” (or “тис”) — various species of “yew."

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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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