Gil Nelson's "Trees of Florida 2nd Edition": a review
The 2nd edition includes 140 more trees, a detailed key to tree families, more detail, more photos. Gil Nelson at the authors' signing at the 2011 FNPS conference. Gil Nelson, botantist and author, is a tremendous friend of FNPS. He leads field trips , he's been active in the southeastern native plant societies' conferences , he speaks at our conventions, and he's written fanatastic field guides so those of us who are new to Florida can find our way around our gardens and parks. Now he's re-written his classic "Trees of Florida" originally published in 1994 by Pineapple Press. The new edition is greatly expanded and includes the origin of trees and whether they are listed as invasive. This information makes this field guide much more useful, because now readers will know what to do with a tree once they identify it. Here's the product description: "The Trees of Florida is the most comprehensive guide to Florida’s amazing variety of tr...