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TROPICAL TREES OF FLORIDA
AND THE VIRGIN ISLANDS

Covering over 90 species and with over 500 color photographs, this book has been long awaited by both tree professionals and anyone who wants to identify a tree in the Virgin Islands and south Florida.

Rare for field guides, this user-friendly book provides for all the species the same categories of complete text: form, leaves and bark, flowers, fruits, habitat, and uses. Also for each species there are photos of the whole tree, bark, leaves, flowers, and fruit.

The organization of the book makes it easy to identify a tree. The trees are divided into sections primarily based on how the leaves are arranged on the twig. So you can look at a twig and decide which section of the book in which you should search for it.

In addition to the 90 main species covered completely, many more that somehow relate to the main species are mentioned. Though most of the trees are native, many exotics that have been introduced are also included, as many of them are now widespread, particularly in south Florida.

“Based on years of work and a deep appreciation for the trees described. Accurate and thorough.” — Margaret Hayes, Herbarium Curator, St. George Village Botanical Garden, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

“This book should be of great value to anyone who wishes to identify trees without a great deal of technical botanical knowledge. Tourists visiting the two locations, as well as permanent residents, can identify and learn something about the many beautiful trees growing in these tropical areas since this book is both technically accurate and entertaining to read.” —From the Foreword by Thomas Miller, U.S. Forest Service, Retired, and Courtesy Professor, University of Florida

“Kent Kirk’s Tropical Trees of Florida and the Virgin Islands [is] a book based on years of work for the U.S. Forest Service and the University of Wisconsin, combined with a deep appreciation for the trees he describes. . . . We hope that the information will prove sufficiently interesting to encourage some readers to try to cultivate the more desirable of these trees, as many of the native trees are in danger of elimination as a result of development.” —From the Preface by Margaret Hayes, Herbarium Curator St. George Village Botanic Garden, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

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