Trees
By: Colin Ridsdale, John White, Carol Usher ; foreword by David Mabberley
Contributors: White, John, 1941-; Usher, Carol
Series: Visual reference guides; Visual reference guides
Publisher: Metro Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781435121331
Subjects: Identification; Trees
Other titles: Identification, forests, historic species, wood types
Notes: Originally published: New York : DK, 2005.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: What is a tree? Tree classification ; Tree evolution ; Tree structure ; How trees work ; Tree reproduction ; Forests of the world ; Coniferous forests ; Temperate broadleaf forests ; Tropical broadleaf forests ; Tropical rainforests ; Barren lands ; Identifying trees; title: Living with trees. Early people and trees ; Tree myths and spirits ; Trees for sustenance ; Trees for wood and building ; Trees for paper and pulp ; Other products from trees ; Trees for amenity and ornament ; Planting and caring for trees ; Forest practice ; Trees and the environment ; Tree conservation; title: Trees of the world. Spore trees ; Seed trees ; Cycads ; Gingko ; Conifers ; Flowering trees ; Primitive angiosperms ; Monocotyledons ; Dicotyledons.