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This book is the most comprehensive work on alders, birches, oaks, poplars, willows and other catkin-bearing plants in British Columbia. Dr T.C. Brayshaw describes all 67 species - and many subspecies and varieties - each accompanied by a detailed line drawing and a distribution map. The book also includes diagnostic keys to the families, genera and species.

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""The author of this attractive handbook to the catkin-bearing plants in British Columbia has long been interested in the taxonomy of woody plants. His experience as a forester has helped him to write about these plants in a manner that makes the identification of difficult groups, such as the willows and birches, accessible to the serious amateur, ecologist, forester, wildlife manager, and conservationist."" Rhodora, Vol. 99

The author of this attractive handbook to the catkin-bearing plants in British Columbia has long been interested in the taxonomy of woody plants. His experience as a forester has helped him to write about these plants in a manner that makes the identification of difficult groups, such as the willows and birches, accessible to the serious amateur, ecologist, forester, wildlife manager, and conservationist. Rhodora, Vol. 99

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Dr T.C. Brayshaw worked for many years as curator of botany at the Royal BC Museum, then in his retirement as curator emeritus, when he wrote many of his books on botany, including this one. All of his books feature his precisely rendered botanical drawings. He is now truly retired, though still involved in botanical and conservation matters in Victoria.

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