Table of contents
What are trees? 6
Why do trees have leaves? 8
What about flowers? 9
What does fruit do? 10
What are cones? 11
Classifying trees 12
Portraits
Towns, cities, and parks 17
Forests and countryside 61
Forests and mountains 115
Other wondrous trees 164
Go on, take a good look around!
How to identify a tree 176
Leaves and needles 178
Flowers and young cones 180
Fruit 182
Cones 183
Changing with the seasons 184
Bark—a tree’s armor! 186
Roots—a tree’s anchor 187
The life of trees
The life of a tree 190
Reproduction 191
Guessing a tree’s age 192
Home to all sorts of creatures 194
The benefits of having trees around 196
Wood, cardboard, paper… 198
Species at risk 200
What can we do to help trees? 202
A
American beech 63 78
American chestnut 50 67 200
American elm 71
American hornbeam 64 72 77
American sycamore 19
Ash 200
B
Bald cypress 112 167
Basswood 23
Black walnut 29 102 156 190
Bristlecone pine 166
C
Canary Islands dragon tree 172
Chokecherry 33
Common apple 37
Common holly 171
Common juniper 117
D
Douglas fir 121 136
E
Eastern hemlock 125
Eastern white pine 83
Elm 200
G
Ginkgo 43
Gray alder 87
Gray birch 98
H
Hazel 88
J
Japanese maple 173
Juneberry 34
N
Nootka cypress 146
Northern red oak 91
Norway maple 106
O
Ohio buckeye 49 68
P
Paper birch 97 140
Peachleaf willow 58
Pear tree 38
R
Red pine 84
Redwood 129 165 200
S
Scarlet oak 92
Shagbark hickory 101
Small-leaved linden 24
Southern magnolia 53
Spruce 169
Subalpine fir 122 135 162
Sugar maple 20 105
T
Tamarack 111
Trembling aspen 139
Tulip tree 54 168
W
Weeping willow 57
Western hemlock 152
Western red cedar 118 145
Western yew 130 151
White ash 30 155
White spruce 126 161
