Summary
This fun, photo-filled, and fact-packed guide to trees will make kids stop and look up at the trees towering over them right in their own backyards. Full description
- Let's look at trees
- How to use this book
- What is a tree?
- Trees with flowers, trees with cones
- Know your leaves
- Getting started
- Scales and needles :
- Cypress (Cupressaceae)
- Tree-mendous: champion trees!
- Pine (Pinaceae)
- Tree-mendous : amazing seeds!
- Yew (Taxaceae)
- Tree-mendous: the one and only gingko!
- Opposite simple leaves :
- Maple (Aceraceae)
- Bignonia (Bignoniaceae)
- Dogwood (Cornaceae)
- Figwort (Scrophulariaceae)
- Mangrove (Rhizophoraceae)
- Alternative simple leaves :
- Custard apple (Annonaceae)
- Holly (Aquifoliaceae)
- Birch (Betulaceae)
- Tree-mendous : the colors of autumn
- Persimmon (Ebenaceae)
- Heath (Ericaceae)
- Loosestrife (Lythraceae)
- Pea (Fabaceae)
- Beech (Fagaceae)
- Tree-mendous : how a forest grows
- Witch hazel (Hamamelidaceae)
- Sweetgum (Altingiaceae)
- Laurel (Lauraceae)
- Magnolia (Magnoliaceae)
- Mulberry (Moraceae)
- Myrtle (Myrtaceae)
- Sour gum (Nyssaceae)
- Plane tree (Platanaceae)
- Rose (Rosaceae)
- Tree-mendous : magical trees
- Willow (Salicaceae)
- Linden (Tiliaceae)
- Elm (Ulmaceae)
- Opposite compound leaves :
- Tree-mendous : trees under attack!
- Olive (Oleaceae)
- Soapberry (Sapindaceae)
- Alternative compound leaves :
- Sumac (Anacardiaceae)
- Pea (Fabaceae)
- Walnut (Juglandaceae)
- Quassia (Simaroubaceae)
- Mahogany (Meliaceae)
- Leaves in fronds :
- Asparagus (Asparagaceae)
- Palm (Arecaceae)
- Official trees of the 50 states
- Quick ID guide.