Florida's Fabulous Trees: Their Stories

I had seen this book in a store and really liked it. That’s why I ordered it. However, I was disappointed that one of the pages, the pictures have been cut out. So the book was damaged and it had water damage. So was in poor shape not good as listed. I give the book 5 stars because it’s a great book. I give the quality one star because of damage.

This slim (64 pages), oversize book is crowded with photos of flowering Southern trees and a wide variety of palms. It would be better if it included a full picture of a tree showing it's growth pattern and not just pictures of the flowers or seeds. It is more inclusive for the palms, showing full-length photos besides the leaves. It is indexed inside the back cover. The descriptions are interesting, telling some of the growth habits, and uses of each tree. One problem arises when 3 or 4 trees are shown on one page; it is difficult to tell which block of text matches which photo. Overall, a useful and fairly comprehensive photo album of Florida's trees, filled with lovely, colorful pictures.

This is a great photo guide to Florida's trees. I wanted to identify some of the trees that we see on our annual vacations to Florida over the years and this book did the trick. It's not a technical horticultural guide but just a book with lots of pictures of hundreds of different species with foliage, flowers, shape, color and anything else you need to sucessfully identify tropical trees.