They do change colors up here in Scandinavia, as well as other places in
Northern Europe.
Cheers,
Nathan
On 1 Nov, 2010, at 2:00 , Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> 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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