Field Guide To Trees Of Southern Africa
Braam van Wyk and Piet van Wyk
Struik Nature
The 730-page Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa will not be easy to carry around in a backpack, but is an excellent reference work.
Botanists Braam van Wyk and Piet van Wyk (not related) discuss 815 of the most common and naturalised alien tree species in southern Africa – about half of the total number of trees of our botanically diverse part of the world.
They included diagrammatic guides to the 43 tree groups and the most comprehensive collection of photographs yet published of southern African trees.
If the Field Guide is too large, consider the much slimmer Pocket Guide to Trees of Southern Africa by the same authors – useful as a quick reference to some of the most noticeable species or when deciding what trees to plant in your garden. – The Star