Field guide to trees of Southern Africa

• Softcover
• Braam Van Wyk

A very well put together guide on trees native to Southern Africa. Interesting information on each tree with photos of leaves, flowers/fruits, and the full tree from afar. Great scientific guide to the different classifications according to leaf types, regions, and more. Can highly recommend!

This comprehensively updated and expanded edition of the regions best-selling 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.
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 plants diagnostic parts. The text also touches on the practical uses of the plants.

Braam van Wyk is a professor in the Department of Plant Science at the University of Pretoria. He is a plant taxonomist and has authored or co-authored numerous publications on the botany of southern Africa