The Book of Leaves: a leaf-by-leafguide to six hundred of the world’sgreat trees.

摘要

Leafing through Allen Coombes’, The Book of Leaves, leaves you impressed by its handsome, although somewhat spartan, encyclopedic 35 Plant Science Bulletin 57(1) 2011 approach and extensive coverage, but it leaves you wondering about the intent of the book, which is not exactly a pretty picture book, not a field guide, and not an atlas of tree leaf form, but something of all these things. This book seems designed to simply illustrate a lot of tree leaves, and it certainly does that. Exactly 598 trees were selected from all the world’s temperate regions are profiled, one species to a page. Two monocots are included and seem strangely out of place.