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Texas Trees: A Friendly Guide

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Ever wonder what kind of tree you're looking at? If you're in Texas, you can't miss with this book.

The book includes a map of soil types (with its natural diversity, Texas could be a country in itself!) and follows it with general drawings of leaves. Compare the leaf you see to the drawings in the book and you're sent to a tree family. From there you simply find the tree from more detailed drawings and area maps. It's easy! I am now considered a tree guru.

What else? Look through the book and find which trees will do best in your area, their size and flowers, virtually everything the homeowner, naturalist, or budding naturalist needs or wants to know.

When hiking our many parks and wildscape areas, other naturalist books stay home. This book comes with me...it's great!

If you are interested in trees and live in Texas, this is the ONE book you must have. So often you have to buy a Western U.S. book for West Texas and an Eastern U.S. book for East Texas - and you still don't have all the trees in the Rio Grande Valley that are primarily Mexican.

The book is clear and easy to use. Even better, it gives interesting tidbits about each tree's range and habits in Texas, including the location of the largest known example in the state.

Highly recommended!

wide variety of trees in Texas. only drawback is the black & white drawings rather than color renderings or photos. but for the price, it's a good little book.

It's really just that simple. No Texas Arborist should be without this book. It is very well written. I can only hope that one day a new edition will come out with detailed color plates.

Patty Leslie Pasztor and Paul Cox are two of the great gurus of native plant life in Texas. And they are just as friendly as this book is. I have many Texas native plant books on my shelf, but this if my first "go to" volume. I especially love Patty's ethnobotany commentaries. They add a great breadth of understanding to Texas human history, as well as its natural history.

I live in the Texas Hill country were Ceader is king. Once you start cutting that down though, lots of great trees start coming up. Since we're not use to seeing them you need a good book to tell you what they are. This book will help.

I am a biology teacher and use this book in my classroom. My students have to do a leaf collection. The students have found this book useful for identifing the leaves. The good part of this book is that it cover a lot of trees.

Guide books that have sketches instead of photos tend to have better information I've noticed, but photos would really make identification easier.

Well organized, the text fairly glows with the authors enthusiasm for the subject.

It's really well organized and written.

THe only way I can see to improve it is lots of colro plates..

I wish they'd write a book just like it on edible plants of texas.