Goswinus
10-09-2010, 03:09 PM
Why Leave Change Color
For years, scientists have worked to understand the changes that happen to trees and shrubs in the autumn. Although we don't know all the details, we do know enough to explain the basics and help you to enjoy more fully Nature's multicolored autumn farewell. Three factors influence autumn leaf color-leaf pigments, length of night, and weather, but not quite in the way we think. The timing of color change and leaf fall are primarily regulated by the calendar, that is, the increasing length of night. None of the other environmental influences-temperature, rainfall, food supply, and so on-are as unvarying as the steadily increasing length of night during autumn. As days grow shorter, and nights grow longer and cooler, biochemical processes in the leaf begin to paint the landscape with Nature's autumn palette.
Read further: http://www.na.fs.fed.us/fhp/pubs/leaves/leaves.shtm
... and for Men one might admit that when youth's crest and adornments are dripping off our trunk, we hold our own in the wrestling match between obrumation and alacrity, with our silver lining -- blades against the tides forged by virtue of character and cunning reversal of refractory odds. ;)
For years, scientists have worked to understand the changes that happen to trees and shrubs in the autumn. Although we don't know all the details, we do know enough to explain the basics and help you to enjoy more fully Nature's multicolored autumn farewell. Three factors influence autumn leaf color-leaf pigments, length of night, and weather, but not quite in the way we think. The timing of color change and leaf fall are primarily regulated by the calendar, that is, the increasing length of night. None of the other environmental influences-temperature, rainfall, food supply, and so on-are as unvarying as the steadily increasing length of night during autumn. As days grow shorter, and nights grow longer and cooler, biochemical processes in the leaf begin to paint the landscape with Nature's autumn palette.
Read further: http://www.na.fs.fed.us/fhp/pubs/leaves/leaves.shtm
... and for Men one might admit that when youth's crest and adornments are dripping off our trunk, we hold our own in the wrestling match between obrumation and alacrity, with our silver lining -- blades against the tides forged by virtue of character and cunning reversal of refractory odds. ;)