Rare Trees: The Fascinating Stories of the World?s Most Threatened Species

Rare Trees

The Fascinating Stories of the World?s Most Threatened Species
 
Publisher: Timber Press
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ISBN13:9781604699524
ISBN10:1604699523
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:400 pages
Size:256x222x30 mm
Weight:1560 g
Language:English
Illustrations: 266 photos, 53 maps
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Discover the secrets and beauty of the world?s rarest trees in this fantastic book filled with more than 300 color photographs. Did you know that the resin of the dragon tree was so prized that it was used and traded as medicine by the Roman Empire? Or that the Bornean ironwood is one of the only timbers dense enough to sink in water? Trees have adapted to thrive on steep mountains, high in cloud forests, on dry savannahs, in parched deserts, and in tropical wetlands. Our own human history?and our future?are interwoven with the trees that define the character and environments of our green planet. Rare Trees offers a stunning visual presentation of 60 of the most fascinating, bizarre, and threatened tree species on the planet, from conifers to magnolias to oaks. With color photographs showing trees and their most unusual features, maps of growing regions, callouts of memorable facts, and examples of poignant cultural and historical uses by Indigenous populations, Rare Trees will give everyone who loves trees an armchair tour of unique specimens from around the globe. You will be inspired to help preserve this critical canopy of life.