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Colors of Autumn
- We are on the wave of golden autumn now.
- This year it accompany by the bright sun and blue sky which be given us by anticyclone following one after another.
- My favourite activity in this beautiful period is cycling by the bicycle path which are surrounded with all the colors of autumn.
- Sitting under a big yellow maple tree I’m wondering why some trees like more yellow and red outfit, while the other prefer to shed leaves green?
- I noticed that especially bright flare up maples - they are the most saturated colors, mostly deep yellow.
- Also birches, rowan and oaks give us bright shades, the first one are usually yellow, rowan is red and oaks are often fulvous and reddish.
- At the same time an alder is covering my garden with its still green leaves.
- First of all, leaves change its color as a reaction to decreasing daylight hours and colder temperatures.
- For the production of chlorophyll, which is responsible for the green color of the leaves, trees need lots of light and warm.
- When autumn brings short and cool days, the productions of chlorophyll is slows down and the existing one is decomposing.
- As a result the other pigments begin to prevail and determine the color of leaves.
- If the leaf cells contain a large amount of yellow pigments - carotenoids, then they give yellow or orange coloring.
- If carotenoids content is low and days are sunny and nights are cool (not cold), then leaves are coloring in red due to accumulation in leaf cells red pigments - anthocyanins.
- Besides some trees color is fixed as a taxonomic feature.
- What about an alder, it continues photosynthesis longer then other thanks to a cohabitation with special bacteria which retain nitrogen.
- So alder no need to save stock up on nutrients , so its vegetation period is longer...
- So found the answer I hasten to continue my way through the autumn path.
- 55elena_jv
October 2024
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