Field guide to trees of Southern Africa - Braam van Wyk & Piet van Wyk

The southern African subcontinent is mantled by a wide range of vegetation types which, between them, embrace a truly astonishing variety of tree species — an estimated 1 700 altogether, with another 100 or so introduced from other parts of the world and now naturalized. The Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa describes, in clear and concise fashion, more than 1 000 of the more common and accessible ones.

The book has been written and designed with the non-specialist reader in mind. Species accounts are logically arranged in 43 groups based on easy-to-observe leaf and stem characters, and each species account is illustrated by at least one full-colour photograph of the plant’s most readily identifiable part or parts. The text also touches on the practical uses of plants; supplementary features include useful notes on tree identification and an extensive illustrated glossary.