Product Description

How often do we overlook bark, a frequently beautiful and always important part of the plant, focusing instead on leaves, flowers, and the shape of the trunk and branches? Hugues Vaucher, a Swiss watchmaker with a lifelong fondness for trees and an eye for detail, illustrates the rich variety of colors, patterns, and textures of bark with more than 550 photographs in Tree Bark: A Color Guide. Originally published in French and German in the early 1990s, this new Timber Press edition has been improved and expanded to include more than 440 species and varieties of trees from around the world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #678624 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-30
• Original language: French
• Dimensions: 2.18 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 260 pages

Review
An excellent choice for professionals and general readers interested in woody plants and of particular interest to photographers and artists; a must for academic libraries with extensive botanical, horticultural, and gardening collections; and very desirable for any library. K. T. Settlemyer, Choice, November 2003 (Choice )

This book shows how interesting tree bark can be with its wide variety in color, texture and patterns when observed carefully. National Gardener, June 2003 (National Gardener )

Definitely barking up the right tree in Hugues Vaucher, who identifies the rich variety of colors, patterns and textures to be found in Tree Bark: A Color Guide. Publishers Weekly, May 17, 2003 (Publishers Weekly )

About the Author
Hugues Vaucher has written several previous books on bark and trees and contributes regularly to the journal of the Swiss Dendrological Society. His bark photographs have been exhibited at botanical gardens in Switzerland and France, and some of his bark photographs are part of the permanent display at Le Mus??e Neuhaus, Bienne, Switzerland.