[Wikipedia] Uses: Traditionally, the resilient and rot-resistant wood was used by Native Americans to make tools, bows (backed with sinew), arrows, and canoe paddles.[4] Other purposes for yew included making harpoons, fishhooks, wedges, clubs, spoons, drums, snowshoes, and arrowheads.[4] The foliage and bark was used for medicinal purposes.[4] Members of the Pit River Tribe would sell this plant to the Ukiah.[25] The Concow tribe calls the tree yōl’-kō (Konkow language). (link added by Mary Ann Machi)

[srs.fs.usda.gov] Flowering & Fruiting: Pacific yew is dioecious. Male strobili are stalked, bud-like, pale yellow, and composed of 6 to 12 filamentous stamens, each with 5 to 9 anthers. They are abundant on the underside of branch sprays and usually appear in May or June. Female strobili are less abundant, greenish, and composed of several scales. They also are borne on the underside of branches. The fruit is an ovoid-oblong seed about 8 mm (0.3 in) long, partially enveloped by a fleshy, berrylike, scarlet, cup-shaped disk called an aril. Pollen is dispersed by wind in the spring (6,11,19,22). (link added by Mary Ann Machi)