Should you trust your mother
Feb 8, 2019 09:31:45 #
When I was a little tyke my mother told me the colored fall leaves were created by the fall leak fairies.
Later in my education years I was told the colored leaves came because in the fall the trees quit producing chlorophyl and that allowed the other colors to shine through. Now I don't know what to think.
Later in my education years I was told the colored leaves came because in the fall the trees quit producing chlorophyl and that allowed the other colors to shine through. Now I don't know what to think.
Feb 8, 2019 09:34:54 #
Feb 8, 2019 09:36:58 #
Feb 8, 2019 09:45:30 #
If ever I would type something without a flaw I would have to change my personality. This comes from being a two finger typer ( I won't mention which fingers) and I can't type and look at the screen at the same time.Then to with my age I never know it I have enough time left to type it again.
Feb 8, 2019 10:03:26 #
jlocke
Loc: Austin, TX
"Mama says that alligators are ornery... 'cause they got all them teeth but no toothbrush. "
Feb 8, 2019 16:12:53 #
I learned at a very early age that I could not trust my mother.
Feb 9, 2019 06:15:22 #
You must have had a good biology teacher in Butler. They told me the same thing when I earned my MS in botany at OSU.
Feb 9, 2019 07:43:40 #
Feb 9, 2019 10:26:02 #
JimBart
Loc: Western Michigan
Like the analogy.... on the other hand .... what did mom tell you about Santa Claus.... what did you find out later.
Feb 9, 2019 14:01:29 #
Always trust your mother. Yeah, they don't know all the answers but what else are you gonna say?
ron
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Feb 10, 2019 00:31:34 #
SpikeW wrote:
When I was a little tyke my mother told me the colored fall leaves were created by the fall leak fairies.
Later in my education years I was told the colored leaves came because in the fall the trees quit producing chlorophyl and that allowed the other colors to shine through. Now I don't know what to think.
Later in my education years I was told the colored leaves came because in the fall the trees quit producing chlorophyl and that allowed the other colors to shine through. Now I don't know what to think.
I personally blame any typo on auto-correct. My botany instructor would suggest the 'no chlorophyll' option but I am going with the leaf fairies option from now on. I suspect I could have been friends with your mother. I like her way of thinking. Thanks for posting.
Jun 17, 2019 14:37:13 #
It is actually both. The fairies are the ones who create the chlorophyl. In fall they start doing other things to prepare for winter.
Jun 17, 2019 15:13:10 #
Take it from a guy with a master's degree in botany:
The abscission layer, a barrier of thin-walled parenchyma cells, develops across the stem (or petiole) at the base of a leaf, flower, or fruit as it approaches the time of falling from a plant. That causes the leaf to fall.
The chlorophyll story is also correct.
The abscission layer, a barrier of thin-walled parenchyma cells, develops across the stem (or petiole) at the base of a leaf, flower, or fruit as it approaches the time of falling from a plant. That causes the leaf to fall.
The chlorophyll story is also correct.
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