Book: New Zealand’s Native Trees
This is a complete revision of the best-selling, awardwinning landmark book on New Zealand’s native trees. New Zealand’s Native Trees is a landmark book, the kind that is published only once in a generation.
Winner of Book of the Year in the 2012 NZ Post Book Awards, it is a treasure house of information on New Zealand’s unique natural history – our glorious native trees, our tāonga. This is why Potton & Burton has invested in the revised edition of New Zealand’s Native Trees.
First published in 2011, this new edition has been completely brought up to date with a significant number of new species described or reclassified. It celebrates our unique and magnificent native forests, and describes and generously illustrates more than 320 species, subspecies and varieties.
It now has over 100 new pages, and a staggering 3200 photographs. Invaluable as an identification guide, a reference, a resource for landscapers and gardeners, and an inspiration for a new generation of New Zealanders, New Zealand’s Native Trees is an essential book for every home, school and library.
About the authors: Dr John Dawson, 1928–2019, was Associate Professor of Botany at Victoria University. He has published a number of books, but this book is arguably his greatest legacy.
Rob Lucas developed his passion for plants and landscapes during the 1970s, training at the Wellington Botanic Garden then subsequently working as a technician in the Botany Department, Victoria University of Wellington. In the early 1980s he joined the academic staff of the (now) Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, when he first took up photography in order to help instruct and encourage his students.
His photographs have been widely published in books and magazines. He is the author of Managing Pests and Diseases: a handbook for New