The book of Indian trees

the long version

"The Book of Indian Trees brings to the reader descriptions of more than 150 species of the diverse trees that the scientist, the conservationist and the nature enthusiast would come across in India, and the rest of the Subcontinent. The economic importance of these trees, their commercial products and the folklore associated with them, serve to augment the essential purpose of this book, that is to enable the reader to identify trees by their field characters and by the taxonomic features, and to appreciate the necessity to protect them."--BOOK JACKET.