| Description |
xix, 459 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-414) and index. |
| Contents |
I: What is a tree? -- Trees in mind: simple questions with complicated answers -- Keeping track -- How trees became -- Wood -- II: All the trees in the world -- Trees without flowers: the conifers -- Trees with flowers: magnolias and other primitives -- From palms and screw pines to yuccas and bamboos: the monocot trees -- Thoroughly modern broadleaves -- From oaks to mangoes: the glorious inventory of rose-like eudicots -- From handkerchief trees to teak: the daisy-like eudicots -- III: The life of trees -- How trees live -- Which trees live where, and why -- The social life of trees: war or peace? -- IV: Trees and us -- The future with trees. |
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Illustrations: The Buddha receiving enlightenment under a peepul tree -- Judas tree -- Jungle scene -- Dicksonia -- All land plants graph -- Cycad -- Ginko -- Young yew -- Bristlecone pine -- Juniper -- Magnolias and other primitives -- Tulip tree -- The flowering plant orders -- Dragon tree -- The monocots -- Young royal palm -- Double coconut palm -- Bamboos -- Traveler's palm -- Large cacti -- The eudicots -- Baobab -- The rosids -- Banyan -- Beech -- Birch -- Handkerchief tree -- The asterids -- Cannonball tree -- Teak -- Holly -- Mangroves -- Coastal redwoods rerooting themselves -- Continental drift -- Fig -- Bat pollination -- The syconium (fruit) of a fig -- Agroforestry. |
| Summary |
Looks at the world of trees, journeying around the world to explore the facts, characteristics, natural history, life cycles, evolution, and environmental impact of trees and forests. |
| Subject |
Trees.
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Trees.
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| ISBN |
9780307395399 |
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0307395391 : $14.95 |
| Standard No. |
NZ1 11592594 |
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