Treasured Trees
Distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
With a Foreword by Tony Kirkham
120 pages
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40 color plates
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9 1/2 x 11
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© 2015
- Contents
Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword - Tony Kirkham
Artist’s Preface - Masumi Yamanaka
Introduction - Christina Harrison
Paintings - Masumi Yamanaka
with tree descriptions - Martyn Rix
Sweet chestnut
Cedar of Lebanon
Japanese pagoda tree
Maidenhair tree (ginkgo)
Black locust tree
Oriental plane
Lucombe oak
Tulip tree
Turner’s Oak
Corsican pine
Stone pine
Chestnut-leaved oak
Giant sequoia and coast redwood
Armand’s pine (Chinese white pine)
Handkerchief tree (dove tree)
Indian horse chestnut
Bhutan pine
Nikko maple
Indian bean tree (southern catalpa)
Goat horn tree
Bogong gum
Sapphire dragon tree
Recommended Reading
Artist and authors’ biographies
Artist’s Preface - Masumi Yamanaka
Introduction - Christina Harrison
Paintings - Masumi Yamanaka
with tree descriptions - Martyn Rix
Sweet chestnut
Cedar of Lebanon
Japanese pagoda tree
Maidenhair tree (ginkgo)
Black locust tree
Oriental plane
Lucombe oak
Tulip tree
Turner’s Oak
Corsican pine
Stone pine
Chestnut-leaved oak
Giant sequoia and coast redwood
Armand’s pine (Chinese white pine)
Handkerchief tree (dove tree)
Indian horse chestnut
Bhutan pine
Nikko maple
Indian bean tree (southern catalpa)
Goat horn tree
Bogong gum
Sapphire dragon tree
Recommended Reading
Artist and authors’ biographies
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