DK - The Tree Book: The Stories, Science, and History of Trees

the tree book

the tree book

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First published in Gr eat B ritain in 2022 b y Dorling Kindersley Limited DK, On e Embassy Gardens, 8 Viad uct Gardens, London SW11 7 BW The authorized repr esentative in the E EA is D orling Kindersley Ve rlag GmbH. Arnulfstr . 124, 8 0636 Munich, Germany Copyright 2022 D orling Kindersley Limited A Penguin Random H ouse Company 10 9 7 6 4 3 001323146Mar /2022 All rights re served. No part of th is publication may b e re produced, s tored i n or i ntroduced i nto a re trieval system, or tr ansmi tted, in any f orm, or by an y means (electro nic, mechanical, photocopying, recor ding, o r otherwise), without the p rior written permission of the c opyright owner . A CIP c atalogue re cord f or this book i s available fro m the British Libra ry . ISBN: 978-0-2414-8755-6 Printed and bound i n China www. dk.com DK LO NDON DK DELHI Senior Editors Hugo W ilkinson, Gill Pitts Production Editor Jacqueline Street-Elkayam Senior Production Controller Meskere m Berhane Managing Editor Angeles Gavira Guerrer o Associate Publishing Director Liz W heeler Publishing Director Jonathan Metcalf Senior Art Editor Sharo n Spencer Project A rt Editor Steve Wo osnam-Savage Senior Jackets Designer Surabhi W adhw a-Gandhi Jackets Design Development Manager Sophia MTT Managing Art Editor Mich ael Duffy Art Dire ctor Kare n Self Design Director Phil O rmerod Senior Editor Anita Kakar Editor Sonali Jindal Senior Jacke ts Editorial Coordi nator Priyanka Sharma Senior Picture Researcher Surya S ankash Sara ngi Project Pictur e Resear cher Nishwan Rasool Picture Resear ch Manager T a iyaba Khatoon Senior Managing Editor Rohan Sinha Pre-pro duction Manager Balwant Singh Editorial Head Glenda R Fe rnandes Senior Art Editor V ai bhav Rastogi Project A rt Editor Anj ali Sachar Art Editors Debj yoti Mukherjee, Arshti Nara ng Senior DT P Designers Harish Aggarwal, Neeraj B hatia, Vishal Bhatia Illustra tors Mohd Zishan, Priyal Mote Managing Art Editor Suda kshina Basu Production Manager Pa nkaj Sharma Design Head Mala vika T a lukder

Contributors C onsultants Michael Sc ott O BE (lead a uthor) has a d egree in bot any a nd is a natura l hist ory writer , broadca ster , and co nserv ationist . Now largely r etired, he is tr avellin g the world as a natur al his tory speak er on c ruise s hips. Hi s boo ks in clude Scott ish Wi ld Flowers and Mountain Flowers . Dr Ross Bay ton is As sista nt Direc tor o f the He ronswood Garden, Washingto n, US. T ra ined i n plant t axon omy at th e Roya l Bot anic G ardens, K ew, he is au thor of several books on bo tany a nd hort iculture, includin g The Ga rdener s Bo tanical . He also con tributed to DKs Flora . Andrew M ikolajski is the a uthor of gardenin g titles , includin g World Encycl opedia of App les and bo oks o n prunin g and p ermacultur e, and w as a contrib utor to D Ks Flora . He has also c ontributed to sev eral R oyal H ortic ultural Socie ty (RHS) referen ce works and to th e RHS website, and is a n RHS judge. Keith Rush fort h is a Char ter ed Ar boricultur ist w ho develo ped h is pas sion f or a nyt hing temperat e, woo dy and (at least ) knee high wh ile read ing For estry at Ab erdeen Universi ty , Scotland. He ha s since visited vari ous ra infores ts, concentra ting on South, Sout heast, and East As ia. He has wri tte n around a dozen b ooks a nd has contrib uted to others . Chris Clen nett is the f ormer Ga rden Manag er for Kew Ga rdens and has be en a profess ional hort iculturist for o ver 40 years , having traine d at O xford Bot anic G arden. While at Ke w, Chris co mpleted h is Mas ter o f Hort iculture, an MS c, and a PhD. Hi s PhD study o f Ery thro nium wa s publi shed as the Kew Monog raph i n 201 4, and he went on to write Flowers o f the High W eald for K ew. Fiona Sta ord is Profe ssor of English La nguage a nd Lite rature and Fe llow of Somerv ille C ollege at the U niversit y of Ox ford . She i s also a Fell ow of th e Brit ish Academy and of t he Roya l Soc iety of Edinburgh. Her w ork incl udes a n interes t in nature wri ting, a nd tree s, o wers, a nd their cultura l hist ory . S he is t he author of The Lon g, Lon g Li fe of Tre es and The B rief L ife o f Flower s . This book was made with Fo rest Stewar dship Council certied paper one small step in DKs commitment to a sustainable future. For mor e information go to www .dk.com/ our -gr een-pledge

What is a T r ee? Classicatio n of T r ees Evoluti on of T r ees How T re es Live How T re es Reproduce Tre es as an Ecosyst em How Fo rests W ork Coniferou s Fo rests Tem perate Br oadleav ed Fores ts Seasonal T r opical F ores ts Tr opical Ra infore sts Using T re es Tre es and the En viro nment Queen Sago Ginkgo Monkey Pu zzle Kauri Itali an Cypr ess Incense Cedar Juniper Coast Redwo od Sunlit Cano py Giant Sequ oia Bristlecone P ine Cedar of Le banon Japanese La rch White Fir Norway Spruce Douglas Fir Changing Seasons English Y ew Tot ara CHAPTER How T re es Wo rk CHAPTER 2 Non-f lo weri ng T re es

Magnolia Bay T re e Cinnamon Nutmeg Dragon s Blood T re e Joshua T re e Quiver T re e Coconut Pal m Standin g Firm Date Palm Chinese We eping Willow White Willow Quaking Aspen Silver Birch Paper Birch Alder Tw isting T w ins Wild Apple Japanese Che rry Almond Peach Pear Hawt horn Rowan Sugar Maple CHAPTER Floweri ng T re es Japanese Maple Dramat ic Branch ing Horse Ches tnut European Beech Sweet Chest nut English Oak Live Oak Cork Oak Olive Avenu e of the Ba obabs Ash Wych Elm African B aobab Kapok Common Lime Cacao T re e Whistling T horn Silver W att le London Plan e Winter W ond er Holly Fra nkince nse T re e Tea Wal nut Tre e Rhododendron White Mulber ry Sacred Fig High-al titude Hav en Banyan Rainbow Eucalyp tus River Re d Gum Cashew Mango Wes t Indies Mah ogany Neem Arabic a Coff ee Cinchona T re e Emerald Fo rest Brazil Nut Jacaran da Rubber T re e Te a k Macadamia Bitter Ora nge Red Mangrov e Spectacular Swamp Dwe ller Glossary Index Acknow ledgments