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What adds red color to plants?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

leaves in plants have a number of chemicals which can produce a variety of colors. in living leaves these colors are normally washed out by the green of chlorophyl, but when the leaf dies, the chlorophyll breaks down, and the colors of other chemicals become apparent.

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