I want to be a treeeeeeee

[ArkAngel]

So i have books on identifying mushroom, birds, bugs and lichens but i would like one for trees as well.

I don't know my tree's as well as i should and i've just moved into a new house with some very interesting looking trees with lovely bark and i have no idea what they are!

Any recommendations for tree ident books please!

 

[Stringmaker]

I have this one and it's great:

"Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of Britain" from Reader's Digest.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shrubs-Brit...2180/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1339504829&sr=8-2

What is great about it for a beginner (like me also) is that you can find a leaf and then home in on type really easily due to the way the book is arranged. If it is a round leaf, oval, triangular, palm shaped etc then there is a classification to start from.

I used it last week to ID a smooth leaved elm and I had no idea such a tree even existed.

You can't go wrong with it I reckon.

 

[British Red]

I really like the Collins guide - not the gem, the A5 sized one. Excellent book.

 

[mountainm]

I really like the Collins guide - not the gem, the A5 sized one. Excellent book.

+1 although my "newer" edition seems to be missing some of the trees from the older edition.

 

[ReamviThantos]

yes Collins tree guide is very good, more portable than my secondary Flora Britanica which is also very good.

 

[Androo]

Here here on the Collins Complete Guide to British Trees one (that whole range is execllent). Easy to find for a fiver or less. But if you're looking at an ornamental variety (which may be the case with a tree in your garden), there aren't too many of those in the Collins. I've got a large variety of tree ID books, and I find that most tree ID books cover the most common and are a good start, easy to pick up from charity shop for a few squids.
The next tree book up in Collins range, Collins 'Tree Guide' comes highly recommended - beautiful book but not so useful if you want an easily portable Tree ID book for the field!
Same goes for Roger Phillips 'Trees in Britain, Europe and North America' - Brilliant for it's Leaf photos but a bit big for the field unless you're off out Tree IDing, the whole Phillips range is great.

 

[Teepee]

'Mitchell Beazley pocket guide to trees'

350 varieties in it

 

[Harvestman]

I'm another Collins guide user, although I also have a Dorling Kindersley one. I find it useful to have two books for comparison and because one book might give a bit of information that the other lacks.

 

[Lupis]

Probably a bit late for the OP but The Works are doing the Collins Guide to British Trees for £3.99! That's not the little gem one but the bigger one that's usually £16.99. Picked one up today.