A Californian's Guide to the Trees Among Us by Matt Ritter

Here is a guide that will not only enable you to identify the trees that shade our parks, green our yards, and line our streets, but will tell you the amazing stories behind them.

Impressively detailed, this guide includes:

• Over 150 entries on California's most common urban and suburban trees
• More than 500 full-color photographs and illustrations
• Easy-to-use identification keys
• A detailed glossary and comprehensive index

Rich in photographs and illustrations, overflowing with information and anecdote, A Californian's Guide to the Trees among Us will open your eyes to a world of beauty just outside your front door.

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"In simple and lucid prose, combined with his own photographs, Ritter teaches us how to look at a tree, how to identify it, how to use it, and, most importantly, how to enjoy it." —Richard G. Turner Jr., editor of Pacific Horticulture

"At last, a great reference to California's most commonly introduced landscape trees." —Thomas S. Elias, author of Trees of North America

"Matt Ritter's fascination with trees shines through in this wonderful book. Accurate and thorough but also very readable and well-illustrated, this is an excellent identification guide and at the same time a celebration of the trees that grow in California's cities and towns. Anyone who is curious about trees is sure to find education and inspiration in these pages."

—David Allen Sibley, author of The Sibley Guide to Trees and The Sibley Guide to Birds