1. Contains descriptions of 988 Trees belonging to 87 families.
2. Has 568 pages, 255 black and white photographs and 193 line drawings of Trees.
3. Separate photographs provided for the Evergreen, Deciduous, Scrub and Mangrove Trees.
4. Sacred, Rare, Endemic, Ornamental, Fruit-bearing, Littoral Trees are tabulated.
5. Contains Maps of Forests of South India and Western and Eastern Ghats.
6. This book is brought out after a gap of more than a century after Bourdillon's The Forest Trees of Travancore (1908).
7. The book is also equally useful wherever Tropical Evergreen, Deciduous and Scrub Forests exist in Peninsular India.