The Sappi Tree Spotting series is a breakthrough in botanical literature. This revised edition with updated tree names allows for easy and enjoyable identification, offering readers beautiful illustrations and photographs making for truly enlightening reading.
Sappi Tree Spotting provides the reader with powerful tools to help look for easy-to-find trees in the right places, builds knowledge on uniquely shaped and seasonally striking trees, and uses clear and simple terminology. Grids showing seasonal changes, animal and human uses for each tree, gardening tips and beautifully detailed maps add to the richness of the tree-spotting experience.
South Africa has a treasure of magnificent, indigenous trees to be found in the diverse and spectacular natural habitats of our country. If you love trees but have found it difficult to find and name them, this book is all you need to enhance and develop your adventure with them.
Other books in the series: Sappi Tree Spotting Lowveld, Sappi Tree Spotting Highlands, Sappi Tree Spotting Bushveld and Sappi Tree Spotting Cape.
A fabulous addition to the bookshelf for all tree lovers, whether they’re the garden variety, the nature reserve in your suburb or heading out on serious trip into the bush. I loved the relatively simple terminology, the great illustrations and the ease at which one ‘gets around’ the different ecozones and habitats. I’ve done a test drive in my woodland garden and correctly identified (I hope) the Ficus sur (Broom-cluster fig), Bridelia micrantha (Mitzeeri Sweetberry, which I have always called the Coastal golden leaf) and the Trichilia emetica (Bushveld Natal Mahogany) amongst others. I’m now need to plan a trip into the KZN bush… perhaps to the coastal forests of iSimangaliso Wetland Park!
Next I’ll have to lay my hands on a copy of Sappi Tree Spotting Lowveld – which includes Kruger National Park. for an upcoming Kruger road trip in 2025.
Authors: Val Thomas & Rina Grant
Publisher: Jacana Media (April 2024)
Price: R350-00
