Fruit Key and Twig Key to Trees and Shrubs

These handy, accurate, and easily used keys to fruit and twig identification are the only guides of their sort with photographs—over 350 of them, of nearly every twig and fruit described—making them especially valuable to the novice.

The fruit key (dealing with both deciduous trees and evergreens) begins with a concise introduction, explaining simply and lucidly the process of seeding, and identifying the various organs involved: the cones and flowers, and their component parts and va…