Moses Greeley Parker Memorial Library (Dracut)

The tree, a natural history of what trees are, how they live, and why they matter, Colin Tudge

eng

Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-414) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The tree

148893086

Colin Tudge

a natural history of what trees are, how they live, and why they matter

Looks at the world of trees, journeying around the world to explore the facts, characteristics, natural history, life cycles, evolution, and environmental impact of trees and forests

I: What is a tree? -- Trees in mind: simple questions with complicated answers -- Keeping track -- How trees became -- Wood -- II: All the trees in the world -- Trees without flowers: the conifers -- Trees with flowers: magnolias and other primitives -- From palms and screw pines to yuccas and bamboos: the monocot trees -- Thoroughly modern broadleaves -- From oaks to mangoes: the glorious inventory of rose-like eudicots -- From handkerchief trees to teak: the daisy-like eudicots -- III: The life of trees -- How trees live -- Which trees live where, and why -- The social life of trees: war or peace? -- IV: Trees and us -- The future with treesIllustrations: The Buddha receiving enlightenment under a peepul tree -- Judas tree -- Jungle scene -- Dicksonia -- All land plants graph -- Cycad -- Ginko -- Young yew -- Bristlecone pine -- Juniper -- Magnolias and other primitives -- Tulip tree -- The flowering plant orders -- Dragon tree -- The monocots -- Young royal palm -- Double coconut palm -- Bamboos -- Traveler's palm -- Large cacti -- The eudicots -- Baobab -- The rosids -- Banyan -- Beech -- Birch -- Handkerchief tree -- The asterids -- Cannonball tree -- Teak -- Holly -- Mangroves -- Coastal redwoods rerooting themselves -- Continental drift -- Fig -- Bat pollination -- The syconium (fruit) of a fig -- Agroforestry