What's that Tree?
Amateur and more seasoned tree-spotters will welcome this latest addition to the What’s that? series. Accessible and straightforward, this book groups trees together into their broad families, based on the features that related species share. This allows readers to narrow down their choices to a few likely possibilities before tackling the detail of species identification.
The book offers: simple, authoritative text; side-bars with interesting additional information; multiple full-colour photographs, including of key diagnostic features and an illustrated glossary of plant parts.
This helpful introduction should provide an invaluable entry point for anyone with an interest in the trees of the region.
Other titles in the What's that? series are:
* What's that Bird?
* What's that Snake?
* What's that Butterfly?
* What's that Reptile?
About the Author - Eugene Moll
Eugene Moll is an extraordinary professor in the Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology at the University of the Western Cape. He holds a PhD in plant ecology from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He edited the first edition of the Keith Coates Palgrave’s Trees of Southern Africa, and has authored and co-authored many guides and papers on ...[more about Eugene Moll]
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