Who said trees aren’t exciting? Enthusiasts will revel in Edward Menninger’s updated edition of Fantastic Trees (Timber Press, $29.95, ISBN 0 88192 324 9). As readers leaf through a museum of arboreal curiosities, they encounter sex-changing sago palms from Florida, trees capable of flowering underground and the elephant tree to name but a few. A pity that the accompanying photographs are not in colour.
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