Editorial Reviews
Karen Schwartz, "When you want more out of a fall foliage trip," Associated Press, Fall, 1998
So you're planning a fall foliage trip. Here's a quick quiz to check your leaf-peeping IQ: -The longest-lasting fall colors occur in areas such as the southern Appalachians, not in New England. True or false? -Leaves of some trees such as birches, tulip trees, redbud and hickory are always yellow in the fall, never red. True or false? -Leaves have as much yellow pigment, or xanthophyll, in July when they are green as they do in October when they are yellow. True or false? The answer to all the above questions is true. And if knowing something about what you see on a fall foliage trip sounds enticing, then here's where to find some easy-to-understand information: Fall Color and Woodland Harvests. If you've every wondered why some leaves turn yellow and some red, or simply tried to figure out what type of tree you're admiring, then this is the book for you.
Jonathan Tourtellot, "Nature Travel" in National Geographic Traveler, Sept-Oct, 1997
You'll add depth and fun to your trip if you get a color guidebook to the autumn woods. The excellent Fall Color and Woodland Harvests, for instance, depicts leaves in full fall regalia-not to mention nuts, seeds, and berries-for a hundred species east of the Mississippi. With it, you can figure out that those spindly, screaming-scarlet trees near the new highway are smooth sumac; or that the large, orange-leaved woodland shrub is black haw; or that a certain ground-hugging cloud of brownish gold is a drift of cinnamon ferns. (Yes, many ferns turn color, too)
Fall Color & Woodland Harvests: A Guide to the Colorful Fall Leaves, Fruits and Seeds of the Eastern Forests
Fall Color & Woodland Harvests: A Guide to the Colorful Fall Leaves, Fruits and Seeds of the Eastern Forests,Ritchie C. Bell,Anne H. Lindsey,Laurel Hill Pr,096086881X,Fall foliage,Identification,Nature / Seasons,Nature / Trees,Nature/Ecology,North America,Trees,Seasons
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