
- 192 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Pocket Guide to Trees and Shrubs
About this book
A comprehensive pocket-sized field guide, covering around 80 species of trees and large shrubs that are common in Britain and the rest of Europe. The introduction explains the basics of tree forms and their identification. Each species is illustrated by the author's remarkable photographs. The text covers information such as ID features for bark, flowers, fruit and leaves, blossoming and fruiting times, distribution, habitat, status, confusion species and interesting facts such as plant uses. This book is as visually impressive as it is useful in the field, with many stunning full-page and double-page photographs to support the authoritative text. Printed on quality paper, the paperback format with flaps adds to the book's durability in the field and provides built in page-markers for quick reference. Part of the Pocket Guides series covering British and European wildlife, including garden birds, butterflies, insects, wild flowers, tracking and signs, and orchids.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Silver Fir
- Douglas Fir or Oregon Fir
- Norway Spruce
- European Larch or Common Larch
- Scots Pine
- Maritime Pine
- Cedar of Lebanon
- Monkey Puzzle or Chilean Pine
- Monterey Cypress or Macrocarpa
- Wellingtonia or Giant Redwood
- Yew
- Common Juniper
- Barberry
- London Plane
- Box
- Redcurrant
- Laburnum
- Locust Tree or False-acacia
- Gorse
- Broom
- Roses
- Blackthorn or Sloe
- Wild Cherry or Gean
- Bird Cherry
- St Lucie Cherry
- Wild Pear
- Plymouth Pear
- Crab Apple
- Rowan or Mountain Ash
- Whitebeam
- Wild Service Tree
- Hawthorn or Quickthorn
- Midland Hawthorn
- Shrubby Cinquefoil
- Sea-buckthorn
- Buckthorn or Purging Buckthorn
- Alder Buckthorn
- The Elms
- Common Mulberry
- Beech
- Sweet Chestnut
- Pedunculate Oak, English Oak or Common Oak
- Sessile Oak or Durmast Oak
- Holm Oak or Evergreen Oak
- Walnut
- Bog-myrtle
- Silver Birch
- Downy Birch
- Dwarf Birch
- Green Alder
- Alder
- Hornbeam
- Spindle
- Hazel
- White Poplar
- Black Poplar
- Aspen
- Crack Willow
- White Willow
- Goat Willow or Great Sallow
- Osier
- Downy Willow
- Weeping Willow
- Net-leaved Willow or Net-veined Willow
- Fuchsia
- Stag’s Horn Sumach
- Smoke-tree
- Horse-chestnut
- Field Maple
- Sycamore
- Norway Maple
- Large-leaved Lime
- Small-leaved Lime
- Lime
- Mistletoe
- Tamarisk
- Dogwood Cornelian Cherry or European Cornel
- Strawberry Tree
- Rhododendron
- Labrador-tea
- Tree Heather
- Duke of Argyll’s Teaplant
- Privet
- Ash
- Holly
- Common Elder
- Red-berried Elder or Alpine Elder
- Guelder-rose
- Wayfaring-tree
- Glossary
- Bibliography and Resources
- Organisations and Societies
- Suppliers
- Places to Visit
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