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Book overview - Field Guide to Common Trees and Shrubs of East Africa by Najma Dharani.
Field Guide to Common Trees and Shrubs of East Africa, Najma Dharani, Penguin Random House, ISBN: 9781775846086
FULLY updated and expanded, this third edition of the top-selling Field Guide to Common Trees and Shrubs of East Africa now features more than 520 of the trees and shrubs – indigenous and naturalised exotics – commonly found in the region. Each of the four sections, trees, shrubs, palms and mangroves, is arranged in alphabetical order according to its scientific name.
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The book features an informative introduction to families; species accounts that describe the plants’ habitat, bark, leaves, flowers and fruit; general and commercial applications and uses in traditional medicine; almost 2 000 photographs depicting the species, its fruit, flowers and bark as well as glossaries, both textual and illustrated, of botanical and medical terms.
Najma Dharani, the author and photographer, holds a PhD in plant and environmental ecology and works at the Kenyatta University in the department of plant sciences and as a consultant research scientist at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in Nairobi, Kenya.
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