Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa

Bigger, better, and with many added features, this well-loved guide is more indispensable in the field than ever.

Southern Africa has a rich variety of tree species, with an estimated 2 100 indigenous species and more than 100 naturalized aliens. "Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa" describes and illustrates more than 1 000 of these, focusing on the most common and those most likely to be encountered.

This new edition of the region's best-selling tree guide offers:
• A new 87-page section of full-tree photographs
• Comprehensively revised and updated text
• Expanded coverage, now detailing even more of the region's trees
• Updated distribution maps
• Many new photographs to aid identification

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 tree's diagnostic parts. The text also touches on the practical uses of the trees.