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For the less romantically inclined among us, who don't get misty eyed over nature's autumnal carnival of color but would like to know why the leaves turn, here is the full prose version of it.
Foliage comes with three pigments: green - the chlorophyll, yellow-orange - the carotenoids, and reddish-purple - the anthocyanins. Green and yellow are in the leaves all the time, while reddish-purple occurs mostly in the fall, in response to the higher amounts of sugar in the leaves and the winding down of chlorophyll production. The yellow pigment is masked by the chlorophyll throughout the summer, and is only revealed after plants no longer generate it in the advent of winter.
So, next time you admire a burning bush or a brilliant red maple, remember that you are looking at sugar, lots and lots of sugar.
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Main Areas: Garden Writing; Sustainable Gardening; Homegrown Harvestr
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Affiliation: All Year Garden; The Weekly Gardener; Francis Rosenfeld's Blog
I started blogging in 2010, to share the joy of growing all things green and the beauty of the garden through the seasons. Two garden blogs were born: allyeargarden.com and theweeklygardener.com, a periodical that followed it one year later. I wanted to assemble an informal compendium of the things I learned from my grandfather, wonderful books, educational websites, and my own experience, in the hope that other people might use it in their own gardening practice.
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