RARE TREES

Sub-titled 'The Fascinating Stories of the World's Most Threatened Species'. Discover the secrets and beauty of the world's rarest trees in this fantastic book filled with more than 250 colour photographs, covering tropical rainforests, cloud forests, temperate and boreal forests and Islands; medicines, poisons and perfumes; precious timbers and music woods; fruit and nut trees, ornamental trees. 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. The book offers a stunning visual presentation of 60 of the most fascinating, bizarre, and threatened tree species on the planet, from conifers to magnolias, oaks, ashes, palms, dipterocarps, and sapotaceae. With around 300 huge glossy colour 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, plus conservation, it is a rather special armchair tour of unique specimens from around the globe. 9 x 10.25". Colour and archive illus, 400 pages.
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