Trees of Delhi: A Field GuideThe book introduces you to every tree you are likely to see in the city or in semi-wilderness areas like the Ridge. You do not have to be a botanist to enjoy this book: everything is explained in simple language. This field guide will help you recognize many of the trees you will see around you. Extensive colour pictures and clear illustrations on how to use the annotated Leaf Keys make identification of individual trees easy. |
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Acacia Albizia apex April babool Bagh Bark dark Bark grey Bark pale base Bauhinia Bauhinia x blakeana blunt branchlets Buddha Jayanti Park buds capsule Cassia javanica cm long common compound cultivated date palm deciduous Bark dense downy Eucalyptus evergreen evergreen Bark female flowers Ficus Ficus benjamina fissured flower-cup Flowers small Flowers tiny forests fragrant Fruit pods glossy green greenish growing HABITAT hairy Humayun's Tomb India keekar Lagerstroemia Large tree leaf stalk leaflets leathery Leaves feather-compound Leaves twice-feathered lobes Lodi Garden longifolia Marg Middle-sized tree moist Myanmar narrow native pairs of side-stalks palm pea family peelu peepal petals pink planted Plumeria pointy tip Polyalthia longifolia Prosopis Rashtrapati Bhavan Ridge ripe rough rounded Roxb SEASONS LEAVES seeds shiny short Small tree smooth species specimens spikes spines stamens subfamily subsp Sundar Nursery Tabebuia Taxodium Taxodium distichum Taxodium mucronatum thin toothed trunk twigs woody yellow yellowish young