Lives of the trees: an uncommon history

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This work is an "uncommon history" of trees. Alphabetical entries cover tree and leaf descriptions, their products, where the trees are located geographically, where they got their common names, people who described the trees or transported them and made them popular, and folklore and stories about the particular trees.;Acacia -- Alder -- Almond -- Apple -- Apricot -- Ash -- Aspen -- Avocado -- Bald cypress -- Bamboo -- Banana -- Baobab -- Beech -- Birch -- Box -- Breadfruit -- Cacao -- Catalpa -- Cedar -- Cherry -- Chestnut -- China fir -- Cinchona -- Cinnamon -- Clove -- Coconut -- Coffee -- Cork -- Cottonwood -- Cypress -- Date -- Ebony -- Elder -- Elm -- Eucalyptus -- Fig -- Fir -- Frankincense -- Franklin tree -- Ginkgo -- Golden rain -- Handkerchief tree -- Hawthorn -- Hazel -- Hemlock -- Holly -- Hornbeam -- Horse chestnut -- Japanese cedar -- Joshua tree -- Juniper -- Larch -- Lemon and lime -- Linden -- Locust -- Mahogany -- Mango -- Mangrove -- Maple -- Monkey-puzzle -- Mulberry -- Myrrh -- Neem -- Nutmeg -- Oak -- Olive -- Orange -- Osage orange -- Papaw -- Paulownia -- Peach -- Pear -- Persimmon -- Pine -- Pomegranate -- Poplar -- Quince -- Redbud -- Redwood -- Rowan -- Rubber -- Saguaro -- Sandalwood -- Sassafras -- Spruce -- Stewartia -- Strawberry tree -- Sumac -- Sweetgum -- Sycamore -- Tamarisk -- Tea -- Tree of heaven -- Tulip tree -- Tupelo -- Walnut -- Welwitschia -- Willow -- Wollemi pine (and others) -- Yew.