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How can a tree like the Japanese Maple that has red leaves all year long perform photosynthesis?
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∙ 15y ago
It sometimes may have green leaves, or it is totally dependant on minerals from soil!
well, no
If you look at any leaf, they all have pigaments, which is the leafs color.
In Biology the other day we performed an experiment called plant pigments. We smushed the leaf on a line that we drew on a peace of filtered paper. Then we put this peace of paper in rubbing alchol. The alchol was at the bottom not touching the leaf yet. Slowly the alchol moved up the flitered paper, the filtered paper was absorbing it. As it did this it pulled the plants pigaments out of the plant. On the line was still red, dark blue. Then farther up was, first, light yellow, yellow, yellow-green, then green. this showed all the pigaments we did this with a green and a red leaf, the same thing happened for both, showing that both leaves have chlorophyll.
In conclusion both red and green leafs have the same pigaments, which help it carry on photosynthesis.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 15y agoJapanese, and some other red maples, have a very high red pigment level which cannot be masked by the green clorophyl as is typiclal in most growing-season leaves.
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