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Fall is a hop, skip, and a jump (into a pile of crunchy leaves) away, which means it's almost time to pull out your favorite sweaters, flannels, and mugs to fill with endless pumpkin spice lattes.
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Leaf peeping is the term used for traveling to see the changing, colorful foliage during the autumn months. There’s some etiquette involved – for the sake of fellow leaf peepers and the wildlife.
A green leaf is green because of the presence of a pigment known as chlorophyll, which is inside an organelle called a chloroplast.When abundant in the leaf's cells, as during the growing season, the chlorophyll's green color dominates and masks out the colors of any other pigments that may be present in the leaf.
Want to know how and why leaves change color in the fall? We've got you covered, unlike the trees dropping leaves after creating lovely fall foliage.
This is the time in which deciduous trees begin the process of colorful changes in their foliage. In New England, a large percentage of trees produce a pigment known as an Anthocyanin, which results in brilliant reds and purples commonly seen around this time; a change that is particularly pronounced in the region's sugar maple trees. [5]
Why do leaves change colors in the fall? Here's what you need to know, and how much time you have left to see the best fall foliage in Iowa.
Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall essay by Diane Ackerman, middletownhs.org — A version of this essay was published as a chapter in the 1990 book A Natural History of the Senses in the section on vision. Twilight of the Tenderfoot (1980) On Extended Wings (1985) A Natural History of the Senses (1990) ISBN 9780307763310