Author : Braam van Wyk
Release : 2013-08-06
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 049/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa by : Braam van Wyk

Download or read book Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa written by Braam van Wyk. This book was released on 2013-08-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensively updated and expanded edition of the region’s best-selling field guide to trees offers much, much more than the highly successful first edition. Fully updated text (including additional species entries) and distribution maps, numerous new photographs and a new 87-page section of full-tree photographs makes this well-loved guide even more indispensable in the field. Southern Africa has a rich variety of tree species, with an estimated 2 100 indigenous species and more than 100 naturalised aliens. Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa describes and illustrates more than 1 000 of these, focusing on trees that are the most common and most likely to be encountered. Species are logically arranged in 43 groups based on easy-to-observe leaf and stem features, and each account is illustrated by full-colour photographs of the plant’s diagnostic parts. The text also touches on the practical uses of the plants.