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The balloon thorn

BUSHVELD TREES It’s a second edition (the first was in
Like Goldman’s fungi book and van 2005) but 70 percent of its needle-
der Elst’s ‘trash and treasure’ here is sharp photographs are new and the
yet another field guide to appreciating information has been much expanded.
South Africa’s incredible natural riches.
100 Bushveld Trees by Megan Emmett Its 464 pages are dedicated to
Parker, (who was a senior producer of literally thousands of mostly life-sized
that excellent TV programme, ‘50/50’), photographs of all our 671 species
provides a close-up of the 100 most – a remarkable achievement for one
conspicuous trees in the bushveld. man. Even more remarkable is that
the butterflies have mostly been
The book is easy to use and fun to photographed alive. Some individual
browse. Apart from its ‘streamlined ID species get several pictures showing
method’, it is packed with interesting their underwings and, where
asides. Parker’s experience as a nature necessary, male and female versions.
guide shines through and keeps the
reader entertained. Each has an updated distribution map.
Colour coded pages make it easy to
Shem Compion’s detailed photographs identify any butterfly, fairly quickly.
make identifying the trees as easy as
possible. This field guide is essential back-up
to South Africa’s only comprehensive,
BUTTERFLIES but bulky (3kg) reference book,
Yet another field guide from the Struik Pennington’s Butterflies of Southern
Nature stable is Steve Woodhall’s Field Africa which one still needs for species
Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. detail.
Large striped swordtail

26 Pioneer caper white – the butterfly that swarmed over
DPL the Highveld in February.

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