Dendrology, as a discipline of industrial forestry, tends to focus on economically useful woody plants, their identification and horticultural or silvicultural properties, but academically will include all woody plants that occur in a region.
Dendrology, as a discipline of industrial forestry, tends to focus on identification of economically useful woody plants and their taxonomic interrelationships. As an academic course of study, Dendrology will include all woody plants, native and non-native, that occur in a region.