Trees of North America and Europe: A Photographic Guide to More Than 500 Trees

by Roger Phillips

This splendid guide to tree identification contains more than 1,000 full-color photographs. Each tree is illustrated in full detail -- by leaf, flower, fruit, bark, and mature tree shape -- and is fully described in the text. A unique leaf index makes the identification of trees simple and accurate. The trees are arranged alphabetically by Latin name and an index of common names concludes the book. An indispensable companion for both the enthusiast and the botanist.

Genres: Nature, Gardening, Reference

224 pages, Paperback

First published September 12, 1978

About the author

In 1975 Roger Phillips began his life’s major work of photographing and publishing pictures of the World’s garden plants. Using modern photographic techniques, Roger set out to develop an encyclopedic collection of books to show the difference between plants as diverse as mosses, roses and annuals. His first book Wild Flowers of Britain was a huge success, selling 400,000 copies in the first year. He has since written 20 additional volumes (often with his co-author Martyn Rix) selling over 4.5million copies worldwide.

Roger has written and presented two major six-part TV series on gardening (BBC & Channel 4). Famed for his ebullient personality and garish red glasses, he has become a well-recognised figure in the world of gardening.

Roger trained at Chelsea School of Art from where he entered a career in advertising culminating in the position of art director at Ogilvy & Mather Advertising. He left O&M to start a career as a freelance photographer, winning many awards before turning his photographic talents to the world of natural history.

Reviews

[Luca Macchi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enciclopedia degli alberi spontanei presenti in Europa

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good diagnostic book for any type of tree. It is a detailed accumulation of tree information.It contains leaves and seed and bark pictures. It gives a black graphic shape of each tree and it's name and latin name and then all the details of size and leaf type and bark. Very detailed. It contains a leaf index and a bark index.

[Kipahni · Rating 4 out of 5]

So easy to use. I took some kids on an explorers hike collecting different natural artifacts which included tree bark, leaves and nut/fruits. This book really helped in identifying by leaf, by bark, by flower or by the nuts/fruits.

[Meghan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book with fantastic photos to help ID trees. All the Random House series books on plants are generally really good. Most are out of print but you can get them used for cheap.