But in fact, young red leaves are equally common throughout a forest's layers.
ECONOMIST: Young leaves, as well as old ones, are often coloured red
If preventing fungal attack were the explanation, he argues, young red leaves ought to be more common in a forest's wet understorey, where fungi thrive, than in the drier canopy.
ECONOMIST: Young leaves, as well as old ones, are often coloured red
It was easier to figure out what gives clover leaves red markings than why they have four leaves.
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Kendall, copies of the papers tucked under his arm, looked up at the sky to watch the leaves, red and gold, spinning down toward the earth.
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ECONOMIST: Young leaves, as well as old ones, are often coloured red
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Healthy Arabica plants grow 10-12 feet tall and have dark-green leaves, white flowers and red or purple beans.
That leaves room for the realtor to raise a red flag over a hazardous loan, he said.
The leaves are beginning to turn from green to red to orange.
They discovered that in as many as 62% of them, young leaves tend to be coloured anything from pale pink to deep red.
ECONOMIST: Young leaves, as well as old ones, are often coloured red
As the road climbed into the forested folds of Misiones's central sierras, the colors seemed unnaturally bright, the saturated emerald of grass and leaves standing out against the earth's deep, rusty red.
The red oak and maple trees shimmer in gold and red, living up to their legendary reputation as some of the most beautiful fall leaves in the country.
We normally think of the leaves as the edible parts of this plant, but ruby chard's deep red stems cook up as a tender, delicious little vegetable all on their own.
But he leaves little doubt that he sometimes chafed against the all-consuming nature of the Red Sox experience, saying that he looks forward to blending in in New York, the way he believes most players can (non Jeter-and-Alex Rodriguez division).
Instead of sporting screaming yellow or red blooms, what makes them appealing is the amazing variety of shapes, textures and colors of their leaves.
Behind him, the twisting green vines stretch out into the distance, their leaves tinged with gauzy mid-afternoon light, their stems rising up from a rich ochre-red soil.
Dr Schaberg has found that the timing and extent of red coloration in different trees is consistently related to the concentration of nutritionally valuable nitrogenous compounds and sugars in the leaves.
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