An edition of The tree (2006)

The tree

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

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An edition of The tree (2006)

The tree

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

1st U.S. ed.
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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.

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Crown Publishers
Language
English
Pages
459

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The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter
October 23, 2007, Three Rivers Press
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The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter
October 3, 2006, Crown
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The tree: a natural history of what trees are, how they live, and why they matter
2006, Crown Publishers
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2006, Crown Publishing Group
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Table of Contents

What is a tree?
Trees in mind : simple questions and complicated answers
Keeping track
How trees became
Wood
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 invention of rose-like eudicots
From handkerchief trees to teak: the daisy-like eudicots
The life of trees: How trees live
Which trees live where, and why
The social life of trees: war or peace?
Trees and us
The future with trees.
Illustrations: The Buddha receiving enlightenment under a peepul tree
Judas tree
Jungle scene
Dicksonia
The names and times of ages past
All land plants
Cycad
Ginko
Young yew
Bristlecone pine
Juniper
Magnolia
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
Costral redwoos
Continental drift
Coastal redwoods rerooting themselves
Continental drift
Fig
Bat pollination
The syconium (fruit) of a fig
Agroforestry.

Edition Notes

"Originally published, in slightly different form, in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, in 2005"--T.p. verso.

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

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
582.16
Library of Congress
QK475 .T83 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 459 p. :
Number of pages
459

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24743990M
Internet Archive
treenaturalhisto00tudg
ISBN 10
1400050367
ISBN 13
9781400050369
LCCN
2006006261
OCLC/WorldCat
64336118

Work Description

There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented writing. There are Douglas firs as tall as skyscrapers, and a banyan tree in Calcutta as big as a football field.From the tallest to the smallest, trees inspire wonder in all of us, and in The Tree, Colin Tudge travels around the world--throughout the United States, the Costa Rican rain forest, Panama and Brazil, India, New Zealand, China, and most of Europe--bringing to life stories and facts about the trees around us: how they grow old, how they eat and reproduce, how they talk to one another (and they do), and why they came to exist in the first place. He considers the pitfalls of being tall; the things that trees produce, from nuts and rubber to wood; and even the complicated debt that we as humans owe them.Tudge takes us to the Amazon in flood, when the water is deep enough to submerge the forest entirely and fish feed on fruit while river dolphins race through the canopy. He explains the "memory" of a tree: how those that have been shaken by wind grow thicker and sturdier, while those attacked by pests grow smaller leaves the following year; and reveals how it is that the same trees found in the United States are also native to China (but not Europe).From tiny saplings to centuries-old redwoods and desert palms, from the backyards of the American heartland to the rain forests of the Amazon and the bamboo forests, Colin Tudge takes the reader on a journey through history and illuminates our ever-present but often ignored companions. A blend of history, science, philosophy, and environmentalism, The Tree is an engaging and elegant look at the life of the tree and what modern research tells us about their future.From the Hardcover edition.

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