Editing Conifer cone (section)

===Taxaceae and Cephalotaxaceae===
[[Image:Taxus baccata MHNT.jpg|left|thumb|Berry-like [[Taxus baccata|yew]] cone]]
Members of the [[Taxaceae|yew family]] and the closely related [[Cephalotaxaceae]] have the most highly modified cones of any conifer. There is only one scale in the female cone, with a single poisonous ovule. The scale develops into a soft, brightly coloured sweet, juicy, berry-like aril which partly encloses the deadly seed. The seed alone is poisonous. The whole 'berry' with the seed is eaten by birds, which digest the sugar-rich scale and pass the hard seed undamaged in their droppings, so dispersing the seed far from the parent plant.