AUTHORS: Fanie & Julye-Ann Venter
ISBN: 978-1875093-33-5
EXTENT: 320 pages
FORMAT: 240 x 167 mm
Soft cover, distribution maps, 750 colour photographs

Making the Most of Indigenous Trees is undoubtedly the most significant, useful and practical book ever to be published on this subject in South Africa. It is based on a highly successful series that ran in Farmer’s Weekly magazine and was prompted by requests from hundreds of readers for the information in book form.
This new edition features seven additional tree species and a more accessible arrangement of trees according to their botanical name. More than 140 indigenous trees are discussed in detail with the following information provided for each tree:

• A detailed species description, diagnostic features, flowering and fruiting periods, natural distribution and habitat.
• The ecological role and utilisation by mammals, birds and insects.
• Economic value and use by people, including use in gardens and on the farm, as a source of food for humans and animals, fibre and medicine.
• Properties of the wood and its utilisation by people.
• Specific guidelines on propagation and cultivation of each species.
• A map indicating the distribution in South Africa. Swaziland and Lesotho is given for each species.
• More than 750 carefully selected colour photographs complement and illustrate the text.
• The book also includes an introductory section on tree propagation by seed, cuttings and truncheons, a table on the utilisation of indigenous trees by wildlife, references for further reading and an index to the common and botanical names.