The Body Language of Trees: Encyclopedia of Visual Tree Assessment

by Claus Mattheck, Klaus Bethge, Karlheinz Weber

This Book is a digest of a quarter century of tree research at the Karslruhe Research Centre (now KIT) promotes understanding of the body language of trees, explains defect symptoms, their failure, and their sorrows, shows fungal fruit bodies as witnesses in court, discloses universal forms in animate and inanimate nature, saves people from trees and trees from people.

Kindle Edition

Published December 22, 2021

About the author

Claus Mattheck is a professor for materials science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Among other things, he developed the Visual Tree Assessment method for examining trees based on their external appearance.