Anyone have this book?

I don't have that one but photos are much better than drawings .Anyway how can you go wrong at that price ? Learning trees is interesting . A few years ago I got some firewood here in the Catskills which I didn't recognise . He called it 'pepperridge' .I had to do some searching but found it was actually black tupelo ! I had no idea tupelo grew this far north and I still have no idea where the name pepperridge came from !
 
I have Tree Identification by George W. Symonds and Stephen V. Chelminsky as well as the Audubon one. The pictures aren't as pretty,(they're b/w) but for identification it blows the other away. There are sections for identifying twigs, leaves, bark, flowers, fruit and overall silhouette. Once you have a potential identification based on any one of those, it points you to the "master page" for that tree, that has all the info.

It's a large book, not something you necessarily want to bring hiking with you, but for bringing a few samples (or some pictures) back for identification, I recommend it highly.

They also have one for shrubs that I have and like too.
 
troutfisher13111 said:
Do you not like the Audubon book? Is it not accurate? Thanks.
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It's accurate, I have most of the Audubon series and they are my favorite field ID books but I have 3 or 4 tree books because you'll never find 1 all comprehensive book for ID

One thing I really like about the Audubon books is that for most trees they give you the more popular uses of the wood and tree it's self.

Another good Audubon book to have is the North American Wild Flowers, great pics and lot's of info on uses.
 
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