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Featured Categories : Study Books : Undergraduate & Postgraduate : Sciences : Biology : Plant Sciences : General AAS

• Mushrooms (Collins GEM)

  Patrick Harding

  
  
   

• Botany for Gardeners

  Brian Capon

  
  
   

• Wild Food: Foraging for Food in the Wild

  Jane Eastoe

  
  
   

• Darwin and Evolution for Kids: With 21 Activities: His Life and Ideas: With 21 Activities (For Kids Series)

  Kristan Lawson

  
  
   

• Pests, Diseases and Disorders of Garden Plants (Collins Photo Guides)

  Stefan T. Buczacki, Keith M. Harris

  
  
   

• The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History

  David Beerling

  
  
   

• Plants for a Future: Edible and Useful Plants for a Healthier World

  Ken Fern

  
  
   

• The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession

  Andrea Wulf

  
  
   

• Flower Hunters

  Mary Gribbin, John Gribbin

  
  
   

• Plant Physiology

  Lincoln Taiz, Eduardo Zeiger

  
  
   

• Plant Names Explained: Botanical Terms and Their Meaning (Hillier Gardeners Guide)

  
  
   

• Botanical Latin: History, Grammar, Syntax, Terminology and Vocabulary

  William T. Stearn

  
  
   

• Trees: Their Natural History

  P. A. Thomas

  
  Trees are so much part of our landscape that they are often taken for granted. Only a few hundred years ago woods and forests were more vital elements in every day life as they provided food, fuel and timber for building and making everything from beds to bows and arrows. Our ancestors knew their trees, information most of us have now lost.

  Peter Thomas, in Trees: Their Natural History restores this lost understanding and provides a much needed general introduction to how trees as living organisms (work, grow, reproduce and die) for the non-professional reader. Peter Thomas is a lecturer and researcher in environmental science at Keele University and reminds us that trees, like animals, face a constant battle in competing for light, water and minerals. In this natural history, he tells many fascinating stories about how trees cope with the diversity of global environments and the problems of being large and long-lived.

  Botanically, trees are not just one particular group of plants but a form of growth which has been adopted by many different groups of plants over the last 380 million years and many of them are now extinct. Today most trees are either conifers and related ancient groups such as theGinkgo or flowering plants. There are also a few surviving tree ferns which originally formed some of first forests on Earth and whose remains contributed to our coal deposits. The tree form of the flowering plants is the most varied ranging from the dwarf Arctic willow which barely grows above the ground to tropical palms and the strange grass trees of Australia.

  Although slightly textbook-like in appearance with tables and diagrams, there are also plenty of black and white photos, useful lists of references for further reading and finally an index--a fascinating read for anyone with an interest in trees. --Douglas Palmer

  
   

• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-eye View of the World

  Michael Pollan

  
  
   

• Seeds: Time Capsules of Life

  Rob Kesseler, Wolfgang Stuppy

  
  
   

• National Vegetation Classification: Users' Handbook (JNCC National Vegetation Classification Field Guide Series)

  John S. Rodwell

  
  
   

• Flora Britannica: The Definitive New Guide to Britain's Wild Flowers, Plants and Trees

  Richard Mabey

  
  
   

• The Cambridge Illustrated Glossary of Botanical Terms

  Michael Hickey, Clive King

  
  
   

• Photographic Guide to Sea and Shore Life of Britain and North-west Europe (Oxford natural history)

  Ray Gibson, Ben Hextall, Alex Rogers

  
  
   

• Garden of Eden: 100 Masterpieces of Botanical Illustration (25th Anniversary Special Edtn)

  H. Walter Lack