The Sappi Tree Spotting series is a breakthrough in botanical literature.

This revised edition with updated tree names allows for easy and enjoyable identification, offering readers beautiful illustrations and photographs making for truly enlightening reading.

Sappi Tree Spotting provides the reader with powerful tools to help look for easy-to-find trees in the right places, builds knowledge on uniquely shaped and seasonally striking trees, and uses clear and simple terminology. Grids showing seasonal changes, animal and human uses for each tree, gardening tips and beautifully detailed maps add to the richness of the tree-spotting experience.

South Africa has a treasure of magnificent, indigenous trees to be found in the diverse and spectacular natural habitats of our country. If you love trees but have found it difficult to find and name them, this book is all you need to enhance and develop your adventure with them.

From the rocky dry Richtersveld in the west, through to the Kalahari sands and the spiky survivors of the arid Karoo, Sappi Tree Spotting Cape richly explores the world of trees and shrubs.

This volume includes proteas and the towering yellowwoods of the forests of the south and looks particularly at the integration of vegetation regions and the distribution of woody plants of this diverse area.

Sappi tree spotting Highlands follows the simple Sappi tree spotting system of looking for the right tree in the right place - most trees in the Highlands are found in rocky areas, a ridge, or along a stretch of natural unspoilt river. Highlands successfully explores the wonder of trees and shrubs from the highlying grasslands and scrubby Karoo plains, to the Drakensberg and the Eastern Cape Mountain ranges. It includes some of the beautiful exotic species that are prolific in the Highlands.

Sappi Tree spotting is a new, easy method of tree identification, written for the newcomer to an area, as well as the experienced tree enthusiast. It won't take long before you are able to recognise almost three-quarters of the larger trees you see in the bushveld. Innovative, accurate maps provide precise location information, Colour-coding lists the likely trees you will encounter in each area. The title is based on three innovative concepts - It keeps the terminology simple. The average recreational tree spotter will never use 'pubescent' when 'hairy' will do! Most trees are easy to find, as long as you look for the right trees in the right places. Some trees can be identified easily because of the striking features. These trees do not need a complex system of 'keying' because they are instantly recognisable.

Stephen Goss is a leading figure in UK counselling and psychotherapy research.

Stephen Goss is a leading figure in UK counselling and psychotherapy research.