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Why do trees shed their leaves?

Updated: 8/16/2019
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Deciduous trees will cut off the connections to old leaves, or to all leaves when they require too much energy to maintain, as in the winter. The tree is essentially dormant, needing only water to keep the cells of the stem, truck, and branches functioning through cellular respiration.

The trees drop their leaves by forming an abscission layer at the base of their leaf petioles.

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