[Trees]
(broadleaved and coniferous trees)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa
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Informal 88 subtaxa 1,666 images 87 ident. refs
Tree (Click to open)
Class 33 subtaxa 637 images 4 ident. refs
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Informal 8 subtaxa 132 images 6 ident. refs
Tree (Click to open)
Informal 37 subtaxa 557 images 36 ident. refs
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Informal 25 subtaxa 421 images 28 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
Informal[Trees] (broadleaved and coniferous trees)
PhylumTRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
KingdomPLANTAE (plants)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
() Blackwell, E. 2004 Some Hints on Identifying Wood in the Field Field Mycology Vol 5 (1): 17-21.
Marriott, J. (ed) 1992 Keys (Newsletter of the B.M.S. Key-Group) No 7 http://www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/library/keys/index-phpcid951/
in the field() Mitchell, A. 1974 A Field Guide to the Trees of Britain and Northern Europe Collins Field Guide, 415pp, Collins
() Phillips, R. 1978 Trees in Britain, Europe and North America 224pp, Pan Books
Price, D. & Bersweden, L. 2013 A Winter trees: a photographic guide to common trees and shrubs AIDGAP key, Field Studies Council
Rushforth, K. 1980 Mitchell Beazley pocket guide to Trees Mitchell Beazley pocket guides, 192pp, Mitchell Beazley
Stokoe, W.J. 1960 *** The Observer’s Book of Trees ***(Superseded) Observer's Books, No 4, Revised edition edition, 228pp, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.
Woodland Trust British-Trees.com www.british-trees.com
Woodland Trust Woodland Trust Nature Detectives www.naturedetectives.org.uk

Timber

Edlin, H.L. 1969 What Wood is That? Stobart Davies
Stone, H. 1920 A guide to the identification of our more useful timbers, being a manual for the use of the students of forestry 52pp, Cambridge University Press

[Trees] (broadleaved and coniferous trees) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 24,248 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for [Trees] (broadleaved and coniferous trees)

Trees have been used throughout history and throughout the world for foodstuffs (fruit and nuts), animal feed (nuts and foliage), timber, firewood, shelter, ornament and medicine.

The following traditional poem describes the characteristics of each species when burnt as firewood:

Beech-wood fires burn bright and clear

If the logs are kept a year;

Store your beech for Christmastide

With new-cut holly laid beside;

Chestnut’s only good, they say,

If for years ’tis stored away;

Birch and fir-wood burn too fast

Blaze too bright and do not last;

Flames from larch will shoot up high,

Dangerously the sparks will fly;

But ash-wood green and ash-wood brown

Are fit for a Queen with a golden crown.

Oaken logs, if dry and old,

Keep away the winter’s cold;

Poplar gives a bitter smoke,

Fills your eyes and makes you choke;

Elm-wood burns like churchyard mould,

E’en the very flames are cold;

It is by the Irish said;

Hawthorn bakes the sweetest bread,

Apple-wood will scent the room,

Pear-wood smells like flowers in bloom;

But ash-wood wet and ash-wood dry

A King may warm his slippers by.

Anon.

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