Stuck on a translation: Тиссы

[J Buckingham]

Not sure if you have already checked this out:
http://bio-slovar.ru/idx.php/0/5664/article/
And according to Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxus
Taxus belongs to the yew family.



From: Andrea Gregovich 
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2014 3:19 PM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU 
Subject: [SEELANGS] Stuck on a translation: Тиссы

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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