Colour Atlas of Woody Plants and Trees

by Bryan Bowes

Overview

Trees and plants are important components of the human environment having significant presence beyond agricultural and recreational values. Colour Atlas of Woody Plants and Trees presents a photographic compilation of morphological features of trees and shrubs giving attention to their unique aspects not presented in existing books. By increasing awareness to users through high quality, full-color photographs and informative text, this book demonstrates the enormous diversity of vascular trees and plants living today.

Features:

• Full color atlas offers concise, but highly informative text accompanied by over 200 high-resolution digital tree images

• Contains images of the anatomy of tree structures and evolution of the most important features of trees

• Presents information on the varied structure and morphology exhibited by trees and demonstrates their vital importance in the current struggle for the survival of our human society

• Surveys the most important morphological features of plants, shrubs and trees

• Presents aspects of plants and trees both common and rarely seen in nature

Bryan Geoffrey Bowes is a retired Senior Lecturer in the Botany Department at Glasgow University and was a Research Fellow in ETH Zurich, Harvard University, and University of New England, Australia. His research interests encompass plant anatomy and ultrastructure, plant regeneration, and morphogenesis in vitro.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367473983
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	06/03/2020
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Byan Geoffrey Bowes is a retired Senior Lecturer in the Botany Department at Glasgow University and a Research Fellow in ETH Zurich, Harvard University, and Armidale University. His research interests encompass plant anatomy and ultrastructure, plant regeneration, and morphogenesis in vitro. His is the author of several botanical texts published by Manson Publishing including a Colour Atlas of Trees (2008). In retirement, he has become particularly interested in the numerous veteran and ancient trees in the field, both in the United kingdom and elsewhere, while also recording detailed digital images of tree micro-morphology.

Table of Contents

Preface: Trees and Why We Love Them ix

Acknowledgements xi

Author xiii

Chapter 1 Introduction 1

Land Plants 1

Brief Survey of Ancient Land Plants 1

Brief Survey of Present-Day Trees and Woody Plants 11

Tree Ferns 11

Arborescent Seed Plants 14

Flowering Plants 19

Sexual Reproduction in Arborescent Seed Plants 27

Gymnosperms 27

Flowering Plant (Angiosperm) Trees 31

Chapter 2 Anatomy of Trees and Woody Plants 35

Secondary Growth of the Stem 43

Modifications of Tree Bark 47

Chapter 3 Roots of Trees and Woody Plants 59

Chapter 4 Tree Leaves: The Green Sugar Factory 77

Chapter 5 Reproduction in Trees and Woody Plants 89

Vegetative Regeneration 89

Sexual Reproduction 91

Chapter 6 The Importance of Trees in the Environment 103

Chapter 7 Trees and Their Links with Human Cultures 125

Index 151