Deciduous trees lose their leaves in the autumn. Mostly these are broadleaf trees, but some conifers are also deciduous.
In New Zealand, there are only a couple of species that mostly lose their leaves in the winter.
The generalization that broadleaf trees lose their leaves in the winter is a northern hemisphere misbelief.
Any deciduous tree will lose all it's leaves in the autumn.
Deciduous (Latin de-: down, -cid-: fall, -uous: pertaining to) trees.
Deciduous trees
It's a kind of tree - one which loses its leaves in the autumn (as opposed to an evergreen which - as the name suggests - stays green all year)
A Deciduous tree
They are called coniferous trees. Deciduous trees lose their leaves in autumn. Coniferous trees KEEP their leaves in autumn.
A deciduous tree loses it's leaves in the autumn and it's wood is classed as a hardwood.
Deciduous trees lose their leaves in autumn. These trees shed their leaves as part of an adaptation to survive the colder temperatures and limited sunlight of the winter season.
An evergreen.
deciduous
Deciduous trees lose their leaves in autumn, facing winter with bare branches.
If a tree loses all its leaves in the Summer the chances are it is dead. If it loses its leaves in Autumn, and is deciduous, then it will grow new ones in Spring.