Description
Aimed at botanists – both amateur and professional – conservationists, foresters, universal, university and secondary school students, NGO’s and eco-tourists, this book covers some 1,780 species of tress and shrubs, illustrated with over 9650 colour photographs, as well as leaf line drawings and distribution maps:
- The first book to illustrate, map and describe all the known woody plants of Mozambique
- Covers approximately 1780 species of trees and shrubs
- Over 9650 colour photographs and pen and ink line drawings
- Mozambique’s major vegetation types illustrated and briefly described
- Conservation status of rare, endemic and threatened plants
- The essential guide to Mozambique’s rapidly dwindling and increasingly threatened woody flora
- A guide to the tree and shrubs of much of south-eastern tropical Africa
Twelve years of travel and research have resulted in this, the definitive work on the woody plants of Mozambique and south-eastern tropical Africa. Comprehensive, authoritative and lavishly illustrated, this is the essential reference work for every tree-lover.
John Burrows is a trustee, and the manager of Buffelskloof Nature Reserve in Mpumalanga, South Africa and curator of the Buffelskloof Herbarium (BNRH). John has a Diploma in Horticulture and an MSc in Botany from the University of Kwa-Zulu-Natal. In addition, to having published numerous scientific papers, he has authored the following books: Trees and Shrubs of Mpumalanga and Kruger National Park (2002) (Editor). Figs of Southern and South-Central Africa (2003) (with S.M. Burrows). Plants of the Nyika Plateau; an account of the vegetation of the Nyika National Parks of Zambia and Malawi (2005) (with C. Willis).
Sandra Burrows is a trained horticulturist, an experienced field botanist and one of South Africa’s leading botanical illustrators. She was awarded first prize in the Margret Flockton Award for Excellence in Scientific and Botanical Illustrations. Besides the numerous scientific papers, she has illustrated the following major works: Plants of the Nyika Plateau; an account of the vegetation of the Nyika National Parks of Zambia and Malawi (2005). Figs of Southern and South-Central Africa (2003).
Mervyn Lötter joined the Mpumalanga Tourism & Parks Agency as a botanist working on threatened plants in 1994 and now heads their biodiversity Planning and GIS unit. Mervyn has developed two systematic conservation plans for the province and currently serves on the Board for the Society of Conservation GIS. He holds a PHD (Botany) from the University of the Witwatersrand. Selected Publications: Sappi tree spotting lifer list. Jacana Media (2004). Marxan Good Practices Handbook (2008) (co-author in two Chapters). The vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland (2006) (Co-author in 3 Chapters).
Ernst Schmidt is a retired lawyer who now farms in the Hazyview area of Mpumalanga, South Africa. He has a keen interest in nature and a love for trees; he also curates his own private herbarium which houses +- 6,000 specimens. Publications: Trees and Shrubs of Mpumalanga and Kruger National Park (2002) (Senior Author). Sappi tree spotting lifer list. Jacana Media (2004).
