Peterson Field Guide To Eastern Trees, A: Eastern United States and Canada, Including the Midwest: 11 - Softcover

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Petrides, George A.

 
9780395904558: Peterson Field Guide To Eastern Trees, A: Eastern United States and Canada, Including the Midwest: 11
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0395904552 ISBN 13: 9780395904558
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin, 1998

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Find what you're looking for with Peterson Field Guides―their field-tested visual identification system is designed to help you differentiate thousands of unique species accurately every time.  This field guide features detailed descriptions of 455 species of trees native to eastern North America, including the Midwest and the South. The 48 color plates, 11 black-and-white plates, and 26 text drawings show distinctive details needed for identification. Color photographs and 266 color range maps accompany the species descriptions.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

George A. Petrides, ecologist and field naturalist, worked with the National Park Services and taught at Michigan State University at Lansing. Petrides has written for the Peterson Field Guide series and was the recipient of an award from the Federated Garden Clubs of Michigan for A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs.


Janet Wehr, RN, devoted much of her nursing career to hospice care. Wehr has served as a member of the Therapeutic Touch International Association, the American Holistic Nurses Association, and the Saret Charitable Fund of DuPage County, IL.

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Feather-leaved Palms, Tree-cacti, and Yuccas (Plate 48)

These feather-leaved palms are native in s. Florida and have ring-
scarred trunks free of old leafstalk bases. Their leafstalks are not
thorny. The only tree cacti in the eastern U.S. occur in s. Florida.
The yuccas range more widely.

FLORIDA ROYALPALM Roystonea elata (Bartr.) F. Harper Pl. 48
The smooth, cement-colored and bulging lower trunk topped by a smooth
bright-green crownshaft cylinder is distinctive. Ring scars faint.
Fronds 15' or longer. Frond segments do not lie flat but grow all
around the midrib. Height to 125'. Flowers greenish white, developing
from a spearlike green spathe at the base of the 5'–6' long
crownshaft. Fruits blue to purple, 1?2" in diameter, leathery.
Rich
soils, hammocks (swamp islands).

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Verlag
Houghton Mifflin
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0395904552
ISBN 13 
9780395904558
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Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
448
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