Braam Van Wyk

Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 732
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781775841043
• Artikelnr.: 54694917

Autorenporträt

Braam van Wyk is emeritus professor of botany at the University of Pretoria. A leading expert on plant taxonomy, he has had an abiding interest in making botany accessible to the general public. He has authored more than 350 publications about southern African vegetation and flora, including several accessible botanical field guides such as Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of the Highveld (Struik, 1988), Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa (Struik Nature, 2013), Guide to Trees Introduced into Southern Africa (Struik Nature, 2016) and How to Identify Trees in Southern Africa(Struik Nature, 2019). He is also the co-author of the mobile app eTrees of Southern Africa.