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Figure 1: Seasonal patterns of leaf emergence and leaf fall for native and non-native species over three growing seasons.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Our gardens often have evergreen and deciduous plants at this time of the year. This distinction results from evolution, driven by environmental factors and ...

Not unlike some humans, some plants look their best naked. For example, stripped of its deciduous leaves, its curling bare branches exposed with the arrival of late autumn, the contorted hazel ...

If you pay any attention to the world around you, you are likely aware of how deciduous trees shed leaves, pollen, seeds, fruits, and yet more pollen into the world around them. Nature, and the ...