Field Guide to Trees of Southern AfricaPenguin Random House South Africa, 2013 M08 6 - 732 páginas 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. |
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apex broadly tapering apex rounded aril axillary clusters Bark base tapering Branchlets browsed by game butterflies calyx cream crown deciduous dehiscent densely covered diameter different plants drooping drupe Eastern Cape Endemism Euphorbiaceae evergreen evergreen tree Fabaceae figs fleshy Flowerheads Flowers axillary Flowers in axillary forest margins Fruit a berry Fruit a capsule Fruit edible fynbos globose glossy dark green grassland greenish yellow grey greyish Group hairless hairs hairy inflorescences KwaZulu-Natal Larval food plant latex leaf leathery Leaves elliptic lenticels lobed margin entire medicinally medium-sized tree mm long natalensis oblanceolate oblong obovate occurring in bushveld occurring in forest oval ovary pale paler green panicles petals petiole Phyllanthaceae pink principal lateral veins racemes reddish brown region seeds sepals sexes separate shrub or small slender Small to medium-sized small tree southern Africa spikes spines SPRING–SUMMER stamens stem stipules subsp tapering to rounded toothed venation whitish wood woody yellowish green Zimbabwe