Thanks. Your link and my own photos of yellowed aspens near the north
rim of the Grand Canyon I think disprove his point about color only
showing in eastern North America.
My wife also read of trees changing color in Scandinavia but I have no
specifics on that.
Chuck Norcutt
On 10/31/2010 8:25 PM, Jeff Keller wrote:
> http://www.californiafallcolor.com/?p=828
>
> Big leaf maples are native and unfortunately so is poison oak - west coast
> of US.
>
> Jeff Keller
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Fildes [mailto:afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 4:19 PM
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] Autumn around the world, was: Nathan's PAD 31/10/2010:
> autumn in Denmark
>
> Could he have meant trees originating in those areas? Certainly east Asian
> trees are grow all over for their colours (Rhus) while the European Plane
> tree leaves (occidentalis rather than orientalis) that Nathan photographed
> in the street just go brown and drop. We have some colour around here -
> known for it in fact - but there is only one indigenous deciduous Australian
> tree and that doesn't colour up (Nothofagus gunnii, I think) and the
> Queensland White Cedar in my garden which does drop if grown in southern,
> colder zones only manages a dull yellow.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 01/11/2010, at 9:53 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> A week ago the question had to to with leaves changing color in the
>> autumn. The question was answered by a biologist who was identified as
>> a "visiting professor" but no information was given about where he was
>> from. But I was rather astounded by the answer which, as a passing
>> comment, said that the only places in the world where leaves change
>> color before dropping off the trees in the fall are eastern North
>> America and north eastern Asia.
>
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