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Title: Native Trees of the Southeast
ISBN: 0881928283
Author:
L. Katherine Kirkman
Claud L. Brown
Donald Joseph Leopold
Publicate Date: 2007-06-04
Publish: 2007-06-04
List Price: $34.95
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Paperback
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1: Great Tree Resource!
This book is a great resource! Informative, and easy to use. A must have for your Horticulture Library.
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2: Outstanding Detailed Coverage of SE USA
This book does an excellent job at providing a detailed approach to identifying trees. For the beginner, it may take a while to find the tree families on a wholly unknown tree, but the information is there. The flower, fruit, bark, and leaf pictures are excellent as are the very helpful coverage maps. One of the most helpful sections under each species is the "Distinguishing Characteristics" section which not only helps to identify the differences between one species and other similar ones, but also can help point you to other species to look at if you are at the wrong species. The Naturalized Trees of the Southeast section is very helpful as well, though it would have been nice to have detailed information (including pictures) in this section as exists elsewhere. Finally, I really appreciated that the book educates you about the various features and terms in tree identication, raising one's tree IQ if you will.
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3: Southern trees
Good book for southern trees. Photos are small but good quality. Has good descriptions and lots of good information. It covers the ArkLaTex area where I live as well as the Southeast. I have several tree guides and this one is well worth the price.
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4: informative, easy to use, helpful photography
This is an excellent guide- The dichotomous keys rely on traits observable in the field, and are separated into summer and winter keys. Each species entry includes descriptions of relevant leaf, twig, bark, flower, and fruit traits, with color photos (with the text, not in a separate section) and distribution maps. One of my favorite features of the book is the "Distinguishing Characteristics" passage for each species; for some reason, some other keys I've used neglect to mention some very obvious identifying traits that are included here. There is also a glossary and illustrated descriptions of ID terms that would make this an easy key for beginners too.
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5: native treees of the southeast
The book is comprehensive,all I need to be well educated,inspired,and have reference on hand with great quality pictures.
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