Trees Commonly Cultivated in Southeast Asia: An Illustrated Field Guide

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This manual is an identification guide for the commonly-encountered trees of Southeast Asia. It provides botanical information for conifers, broad-leafed trees, bamboos, palms, and bananas.

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This guide provides species identification tools, including the leaf structure, flower forms, and fruit shapes, that can be used by practitioners in the field. There is a dichotomous key to help use the characteristics for tree identification. Finally, for each species, there is a profile with drawings of the plant, common names, key characteristics, morphological descriptions, use, ecology, distribution (including map) and references.