There isn’t a specific edible wild plant ID book available for the UK, so you are left with using wildflower plant ID guides instead.

This is the ideal pocket guide for travelling naturalists and tree enthusiasts alike and is an essential addition to every nature lover's bookshelves.Most wild food books only give cursory plant ID specifics and are generally not enough to ensure absolute certainty. Wildflower keys can be hard to get your head around if you aren’t a trained botanist, however, they are well worth having, as the detail of each plant species is listed in minute detail thereby ensuring you can correctly ID a plant – Read more.

Each species is covered in detail with information on how to identify, whether from a leaf, twig, bark or whole tree, plus extra information on where the tree grows (including a map), how high they grow, what uses the tree is used for and its unique history.

The introduction contains illustrations of the main leaves, buds, and firs you are likely to find, and these provide the starting point for identification by leading you to a 'key' species. So depending on your skill level, you should be able to ID a plant pre-flowering which is when you generally want to eat it – Read more. This brand-new field guide to the trees of northern Europe contains some of the finest original tree illustrations ever produced.

He had an insatiable thirst for compiling lists, helped by a genuine photographic memory for statistics. Tony set up the Vicky Schilling Bursary in 2019 in memory of his wife Vicky, co-founder of The Tree Register. Conifer species, unfashionable through the second half of the 20th century and often short-lived in.With Vegetative Key to the British Flora, the aim of the authors is to “enable reliable identification at any stage of growth”.

A slender, fast-growing deciduous tree with a narrow, tapering crown when young and growing vigorously. Philippa has also been our European Representative since 2015 and has previously volunteered for the Tree Register as Membership Secretary and helped archive materials now held at Kew.A great introductory guide to native and common naturalised trees with good simple keys to leaves, twigs and cones. This book helps you plant more trees in your gardens, and to work with others to get more trees growing at work, school, along streets, in neighbouring gardens and in parks and public green spaces. Within each tree family there is a list of key species and a guide to the most important features to look for when identifying a particular tree from that family. At The Tree Council we are often asked for our recommendations of useful tree reference books and other tree guides.