Trees - Deciduous
The broadleaf trees that drop their leaves for winter, which is a strategy rather than a weakness: a leaf is expensive to keep alive through frost, so the tree writes it off and grows a new one. The live oaks of the American South are broadleaved but keep their leaves, and count as deciduous only in the loosest sense.
The reds and yellows of autumn are two different things. The yellow was there all summer, hidden under the green, and shows when the tree withdraws its chlorophyll; the red is made fresh, in the last weeks, from sugars trapped in the leaf, which is why a bright, cold autumn is a red one.
- American Beech Fagus grandifolia
- Birch Betula sp.
- Downy Birch Betula pubescens
- Japanese Maple Acer palmatum
- Kousa Dogwood Cornus kousa
- Maple Acer sp.
- Oak Quercus
- Paper Birch Betula papyrifera
- Red Maple Acer rubrum
- Southern Live Oak Quercus virginiana
- Tulip Tree Liriodendron tulipifera
- Wedding Cake Tree Cornus controversa 'Variegata'
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