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"This exhaustive, illustrated A-Z encyclopedic guide to tropical and subtropical trees is destined to become a much-treasured, hard-used garden classic. Margaret Barwick describes trees by their specific attributes and profiles, such as color, shape, texture, flowers, foliage, edible fruit, spice or timber, and those that have traditionally provided an essential element to the lives of their communities. In addition to the 1,981 color photographs...

In late 2013, a Franco-Cameroonian team discovered a painkiller, which man has claimed to have invented, but exists in a natural state in a common African tree, the African peach. Bernard Fontanille travels to a village of the Tikar people. Traditional healer Gaston Amoa knows the African peach well, and calls it the "Ntwo'o." For the Tikars and their neighbors the Pygmies, the plant is critical and its numerous properties help them get through their...

Profiles over 190 tree, shrub, subshrub, and cactus species of southern Texas, providing color photos, common and scientific names, and details on their sizes, characteristics, flowers, habitats, and distribution.

As the ancient baobab trees begin to collapse, scientists in South Africa are trying to figure out why these giants are dying and what they can tell us about climate change.

This book contains a collection of essays, poems, and stories by the author. Most of the items originally appeared in The New Yorker magazine.