Free Tree-Identification Book Available

What Tree Is That?, a pocket guide for identifying trees, is available from The National Arbor Day Foundation.

The 72-page guide will help readers identify 135 different trees found in the eastern and central United States.

Well-known trees are included: oaks, maples, spruces, and pines. Species such as horse chestnut and mockernut hickory, sassafras and shadbush, persimmon and pawpaw, and pagoda tree and pecan are also identified.

Dozens of drawings illustrate the trees’ leaves or needles and their acorns, berries, seed pods, cones, and other identifying features. What Tree Is That? is organized to make it easy to identify trees in a simple step-by-step fashion.

“Helping people enjoy and appreciate trees is central to the educational mission of the Arbor Day Foundation,” says John Rosenow, the foundation’s president. “Being able to identify trees is important to knowing how to care for them and how to plant the right tree in the right place.”

To obtain a free tree ID guide, send name and address and $3 for postage to What Tree Is That?, The National Arbor Day Foundation, Nebraska City, NE 68410.