Portable, simple to use, and packed with more than 1,200 beautiful colour photographs, the Trees of Britain and Northern Europe: A Field Guide helps you to identify over 400 different trees more quickly and easily than ever before. Unique colour-coded symbols allow rapid access to tree groups, enabling you to pinpoint the correct species fast. Information is given for each tree's family, origin, spread, and distribution, as well as guidance on conservation issues, and there are accompanying colour photographs for every tree. Also included is invaluable general advice on how to identify trees, distinguishing species by their bark, leaf arrangement and texture, smell, fruit, and flowers. With accessible, authoritative coverage of species in Britain and Northern Europe, including Scandinavia, this is the definitive family guide for anyone who wants to identify and learn more about the trees around them in a fast and simple way.