Trees and Shrubs of Mpumalanga and Kruger National Park

Trees and Shrubs of Mpumalanga and Kruger National Park
Author: Ernst Schmidt
Publisher: Jacana Media
Total Pages: 710
Release: 2002
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9781919777306

This is a guide to every tree and woody shrub indigenous to the province of Mpumlanga and the entire Kruger National Park. Designed for use by beginner tree enthusiasts and the seasoned botanist, it details more than 950 species of trees and shrubs.

Sappi Tree Spotting

Sappi Tree Spotting
Author: Rina Grant
Publisher: Jacana Media
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781770091238

"The Sappi Tree Spotting series is a breakthrough in botanical literature. This revised edition with updated tree names allows for easy and enjoyable identification, offering readers beautiful illustrations and photographs making for truly enlightening reading. This guide, through clear terminology, helps the tree spotter to build their knowledge of trees. Additionally, grids showing seasonal changes, animal and human uses for each tree, gardening tips and beautifully detailed maps add to the richness of the tree spotting experience. South Africa has a treasure of magnificent, indigenous trees to be found in the diverse and spectacular natural habitats of our country. If you love trees, but have found it difficult to find and name them, this book is all you need to enhance and develop your adventure with them."--

100 Bushveld Trees

100 Bushveld Trees
Author: Megan Emmett Parker
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2019-04-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 177584661X

This highly visual new guide introduces readers to 100 of the most memorable trees in the bushveld – the northern and eastern regions of South Africa, encompassing both the lowveld and the highveld. An introduction covers the basics of tree anatomy, supported by a pictorial glossary, and details the author’s streamlined ID method that enables even novices to make quick and sure identifications. Most trees are generously featured across double-page spreads; full tree images along with diagnostic photos (bark, leaves, thorns, flowers, pods, fruit, etc.) enable readers to distinguish even those trees that are most confusing, such as the ‘acacias’ or the bushwillows; concise text highlights each tree’s key features; interesting facts, multiple uses and particular value the trees have among local populations are given. With its abundant, detailed photographs and straightforward text, this guide will help readers unlock the complicated world of trees.

The Global Forest

The Global Forest
Author: Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2010-05-13
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1101404531

A pioneering scientist writes of the fascinating ecological and pharmaceutical properties of trees, and how mother trees nourish younger trees and help them defend themselves – the inspiration for the documentary Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees Renowned scientist Diana Beresford-Kroeger presents an unforgettable and highly original work of natural history with The Global Forest. She explores the fascinating and largely untapped ecological and pharmaceutical properties of trees: leaves that can comb the air of particulate pollution, fatty acids in the nuts of hickory and walnut trees that promote brain development, the compound in the water ash that helps prevent cancer, aerosols in pine trees that calm nerves. In precise, imaginative, and poetic prose, she describes the complexity and beauty of forests, as well as the environmental dangers they face. The author's indisputable passion for her subject matter will inspire readers to look at trees, and at their own connection to the natural world, with newfound awe.

Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa

Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa
Author: Braam van Wyk
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Total Pages: 2943
Release: 2013-08-06
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1775841049

This comprehensively updated and expanded edition of the region’s best-selling field guide to trees offers much, much more than the highly successful first edition. 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 plant’s diagnostic parts. The text also touches on the practical uses of the plants.

Pocket List of Southern African Indigenous Trees

Pocket List of Southern African Indigenous Trees
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2001
Genre: Climbing plants
ISBN:

Pocket list of Southern African indigenous trees is a complete and taxonomically inventory of all trees indigenous to South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland. A must for tree-spotters, plant lovers, gardeners and hikers, this definitive list of tree names and numbers is an aid to identification as well as a check on the correct spelling of botanical and common names. Features of this guide include: Currently accepted scientific names and frequently encountered botanical synonyms for all indigenous trees as well as selected shrubs and woody climbers. Standard and alternative common names in six of the more widely spoken languages in the region, namely Afrikaans, English, Northern Sotho, Tswana, Xhosa and Zulu. Tree numbers for all entries. These are widely used as a handy means of marking trees along hiking trails, in nature reserves and at recreational resorts. Distribution maps u in colour - showing the geographical ranges of the various trees for the whole of southern Africa. Line drawings of selected tree species.

Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature (Easyread Large Edition)

Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature (Easyread Large Edition)
Author: Ian McCallum
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2009-12
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1458748227

A best seller in Africa, Ecological Intelligence defines a new way of thinking about the unprecedented environmental pressures of our day. Ian McCallum offers a compelling argument: that we must think differently about ourselves and the earth if we are to take seriously the survival of wilderness areas, wild animals, and the human race. He explores the relationship between humans and nature from both a biological and poetic perspective, articulating a wild and ethical imperative - an urgent reminder that we are inextricably linked to the land and that we must not be the creatures of our own undoing. ''A profound and necessary book about an important idea. Something like this had to be done.'' - Lyall Watson, best-selling author of Supernature.