William Carey Grimm's classic Illustrate Book of Trees has been the authority on eastern North American tree identification for over 40 years. Now available in a completely updated edition, this book includes recently introduced species and incorporates changes in taxonomy, nomenclature, and geographic range, with distinguishing characteristics and similar-species comparisons for quick and accurate identification. Readers will be able to easily identify a species by observing the leaves, flowers, and fruits of a tree in summer or its twigs, buds, and bark in winter. Written in a straightforward, nonscientific language for beginning botanists of any age. A glossary of terms & a complete index are included.
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55 of 55 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
This Grimm is no fairy-tale,
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This review is from: Illustrated Book of Trees (Paperback)
Very nice book! The edition I own is the 1983 printing, so I am unfamiliar with recent changes. Book has good drawings of leaves (often several), fruits, twigs, buds and leaf scars. Excellent info on summer and winter identification included in text and step-by-step outlines. The step-by-step outline starts at the front of the book and helps you identify the family in which the tree in question belongs. Then turn to the section on that tree family for help isolating which species you have on your hands. There are good text descriptions throughout to aid identification as well as information on history, growth, and commercial uses of the trees. Not a field guide for the size and weight conscious though. Keep it in your living room or SUV.
64 of 66 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
More than identification,
By annette (Columbus, OH United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Illustrated Book of Trees (Paperback)
I bought my 1983 edition when I was active as a park district volunteer. What sold me on this book was that it went beyond the tree's identification, and told you more about the tree itself. For example, looking up the Sycamore it says "The Sycamore is also known as the Buttonwood, Buttonball-tree, and the American Plane Tree. It is one of the most massive of all our native trees, perhaps exceeding all others in the diameter of its trunk... The wood is heavy, hard, tough and coarse-grained; being difficult to work or split. It is used for furniture - both solid and veneer, interior finish, siding, musical instruments, boxes and crates. Practically all butcher's blocks are made from the Sycamore..." and so on.
44 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
the best book by far for identifying trees,
By Sammy Madison (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Illustrated Book of Trees: The Comprehensive Field Guide to More than 250 Trees of Eastern North America, Revised Edition (Paperback)
The instructor I took field biology with in college highly recommended this book. He thought it was by far the best guide for identifying trees. Now, years later and having used (or attempted to use) many different field guides, I know why he was so crazy about this book. Winter or summer, if you are looking at the bark, leaf, or bud, the very clear and detailed pictures and unambiguous text will allow you to identify any tree with certainty.
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The serious student of trees should first become familiar with their general structure. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
solitary bundle scar, largest terminal bud, bud scale margins, upper surfaces lustrous dark green, twigs moderately stout, fruiting balls, scattered bundle scars, stipule scar lacking, very attractive ornamental tree, lustrous yellowish green, female aments, drooping aments, conspicuous warty lenticels, several bundle scars, terminal bud lacking, horizontally elongated lenticels, gum bully, terminal bud absent, terminal bud present, twigs glabrous, becoming roughened, leaf sinuses, swamp titi, pale lenticels, false buckthorn Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Carolina, North America, South Carolina, Mississippi Valley, New York, United States, Summer Key, Nova Scotia, New Jersey, Great Lakes, Illustrated Book, New England, Table Mountain, West Virginia, New Brunswick, John Fraser, Magnolia Family, North Dakota, Ohio Valley, Old World, Pine Family, Rocky Mountains, Thomas Walter, Altamaha River, Joseph Illick New!
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The serious student of trees should first become familiar with their general structure. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
solitary bundle scar, largest terminal bud, bud scale margins, upper surfaces lustrous dark green, twigs moderately stout, fruiting balls, scattered bundle scars, stipule scar lacking, very attractive ornamental tree, lustrous yellowish green, female aments, drooping aments, conspicuous warty lenticels, several bundle scars, terminal bud lacking, horizontally elongated lenticels, gum bully, terminal bud absent, terminal bud present, twigs glabrous, becoming roughened, leaf sinuses, swamp titi, pale lenticels, false buckthorn Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Carolina, North America, South Carolina, Mississippi Valley, New York, United States, Summer Key, Nova Scotia, New Jersey, Great Lakes, Illustrated Book, New England, Table Mountain, West Virginia, New Brunswick, John Fraser, Magnolia Family, North Dakota, Ohio Valley, Old World, Pine Family, Rocky Mountains, Thomas Walter, Altamaha River, Joseph Illick New!
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- Silva of North America by Charles Sargent on page 378, page 480, and Back Matter
- North American Trees: National Aud Society (National Audubon Society Collection Series) by Barbara Burn in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Trees of Northern Florida by Herman Kurz in Back Matter
- Familiar Trees of America by Grimm in Back Matter
- The Rocky Mountains (World's Wild Places) by Bryce S. Walker in Back Matter
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- The Urban Tree Book: An Uncommon Field Guide for City and Town by Arthur Plotnik in Back Matter
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