Broadleaf Trees

Oak, beech, lime, birch or maple: an illustrated guide to knowing and recognising the broadleaf trees of France and Europe, in forests as well as parks.

Panel by panel:

• The different parts of a tree: bark, cambium, sapwood, heartwood
• Horse chestnuts, limes and magnolias, ornamental trees
• Birches, alders, hornbeams and hazels
• Oak and beech, kings of the French forest
• Elms, hackberries and rowans
• Black locusts, carobs and pod-bearing trees
• Recognising broadleaf trees by their leaves, flowers and fruit

Audience: all ages. Ideal for: a tree festival, a nature outing, a botany project in life and earth sciences.