The Secret Life of Trees

This natural-history book explains how trees are built and how they live: roots, trunks, leaves, flowers, and seeds; the chemistry of wood and sap; partnerships with fungi and insects; and the ways species occupy forests, savannas, and human orchards. Tudge moves from evolution and classification to growth, longevity, and the uses people make of timber and fruit. Examples range across continents, from familiar oaks to tropical hardwoods. The work is a general account of tree biology and ecology for lay readers, not a planting handbook and not a memoir of one woodland.

Bound in black buckram blocked with a gilt and green arboreal design. Green slipcase.