TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tudge,Colin
TI  - The tree: a natural history of what trees are, how they live, and why they matter 
SN  - 1400050367
AV  - QK475 .T83 2006
U1  - 582.16 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Crown Publishers
KW  - Trees
N1  - "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; What is a tree? -- 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 -- All land plants graph -- Cycad -- Ginko -- Young yew -- Bristlecone pine -- Juniper -- 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 -- Coastal redwoods rerooting themselves -- Continental drift -- Fig -- Bat pollination -- The syconium (fruit) of a fig -- Agroforestry
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip069/2006006261.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0664/2006006261-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0664/2006006261-d.html
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