Author: Megan Emmett Parker
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 177584661X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 565
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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.
Author: Megan Emmett [VNV] Parker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781775846550
Category : Trees
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Author: Braam van Wyk
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1775841049
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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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.
Author: Malcolm Funston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trees
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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With a sensitive eye, this study reveals the beauty and infinite variety of the trees of the Bushveld in all their shapes and their ever-changing colours. Photographs are accompanied by detailed illustrations and thought-provoking text; together they describe not only the trees, but also their flowers and fruits, their uses, and the many and varied animals that live in association with them.
Author: Roux Wilsenach
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780868127057
Category : Trees
Languages : en
Pages : 181
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Author: Ernst Schmidt
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 9781919777306
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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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.
Author: Rina Grant
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 9781770092372
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Sappi tree spotting is the well-known, easy method of tree identification, written for the newcomer to the area as well as the experienced tree enthusiast. Sappi Tree Spotting: Lowveld (including the Kruger National Park) is now in its third edition, and it will help the reader to recognize almost three quarters of the larger trees to be seen in the Lowveld. The title is based on three innovative concepts - it keeps the terminology simple. The average recreational tree spotter will never use 'pubescent' when 'hairy' will do Most trees are easy to find, as long as you look for the right trees in the right places. Some trees can be identified easily because of their Striking Features. These trees do not need a complex system of 'keying', because they are instantly recognisable.
Author: Eugene John Moll
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trees
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Author: Clarke Scholtz
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1775846326
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
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Pollinators, parasites, purifiers, predators, decomposers – insects arguably play the most important roles in the functioning of the Earth’s ecosystems. This lavishly illustrated and highly authoritative book is structured around southern Africa’s 13 distinct biomes; it reflects the essential role insects play in most ecological processes such as pollination, predation, parasitism, soil modification and nutrient recycling; details how they serve as food for multitudes of other organisms, including bacteria and fungi, as well as specially adapted plants, insect-feeding arthropods, reptiles, birds and mammals; depicts the insects and phenomena described in some 2,000 photographs that accompany the accessible text; highlights the crucial role insects play as ecosystem service providers, giving intimate insight into the beauty and importance of insects in the natural world. Includes a guide to each of the 25 insect orders found in southern Africa, with images showing their diagnostic characters. This key publication detailing the latest research in the field of entomology will appeal to academics and nature enthusiasts alike.
Author: Val Thomas
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 9781770090385
Category : Botanical illustration
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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