The tree : a natural history of what trees are, how they live, and why they matter / Colin Tudge.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tudge, Colin
Language:English
Published: New York : Crown Publishers, [2006], ©2006.
Edition:First U.S. edition.
Subjects:
Trees.
Physical Description:xix, 459 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • What is a tree?
  • How trees became
  • Wood
  • 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 invention of rose-like eudicots
  • From handkerchief trees to teak: the daisy-like eudicots
  • The life of trees: How trees live
  • Which trees live where, and why
  • The social life of trees: war or peace?
  • Trees and us
  • The future with trees
  • 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.