maeve- names get weird in the wood realm. Since I posted that in 2002, I found another one.

I had been working with the roots of Japanese Yew, a shrub, and liked it a lot, so I mentioned to a local friend that I wanted "Yew roots"...the shrub kind.

A few months later, he said he had some he had dug up from near his front door as he was remodeling....so I went and got them. They turned out NOT to be Japanese Yew, but something else...but looked good anyway, (he said, "well, they CALL it yew"...so I started using Google and found a number of references to Yew-Pine as Podocarpus macrophyllus, which fit the descripition.
   This may even be what was referenced in the song, as the shrub grows in those mountains where a lot of stuff won't.