because the leaves have photosynthesized- glucose is produced.
therefore, the excess glucose is converted to starch.
The starch is then stored in the leaf-starch is what causes the "green" leaf to turn blue black, as iodine turns blue-black when it reacts with starch.:P
I did this lab experiment in my biology class. When Lugol's indicator is added to glucose, it turns to a dark green colour for starch it turns black and for surcose it turns yellow.
Well, isn't that just a happy little accident! When you add iodine to sugar, it turns a dark purple or black color. It's like a beautiful, unexpected transformation right before your eyes. Just remember, every color has its place in the palette of life.
Iodine turns blue when mixed with tap water because iodine forms a complex with starch in the presence of water, resulting in a blue-black color. This reaction is commonly used as an indicator for detecting the presence of starch in a solution.
because of chlorophyll
Iodine tests for the presence of starch. It is brownish yellow in color if there is no starch present, and bluish black if starch is present. Benedict's solution is used to test for the presence of a reducing sugar, changing from its usual color blue to green to brick red if reducing sugars are present. No reducing sugar solution stays blue.
because there is starch present
When the leaves fall down the supply of chlorophyll is stopped
When iodine is added to a leaf with no starch, the leaf will remain its original color (usually green). Iodine reacts with starch molecules, turning the leaf blue-black if starch is present.
I did this lab experiment in my biology class. When Lugol's indicator is added to glucose, it turns to a dark green colour for starch it turns black and for surcose it turns yellow.
Because it doesn't contain green pigment, chloroplast... Green leaves changes to blue-black due to present of starch in chloroplast.
Starch would have been present on the light green shirt that reacted with the iodine forming a blue black colour.
When conducting a starch test green and non-green leaves will react differently. Non-green leaves will not change color, remaining the same. However, green leaves will darken to black or nearly black color.
By blue color I assume you mean an added dye that shows how some parts of the leaf can photosynthesize and others not. The easiest of these experiments is to place the leaf in boiling ethanol (alcohol) and when drained of colour spread out on a flat surface. Soak the leaf in iodine and the green parts will turn blue/black and the non green parts will stay the yellowish brown colour of iodine. The green parts contain starch (a more compact form of glucose) which makes iodine turn blue/black. The blue/black is what will show starch is present.
It can be observed that when testing for starch their must be a olour change of blue black after iodine solution was added.Before the colour change was green that changed to blue black of the whole procedure is been carried out.
The basic ingredient of green tea is the same as the basic ingredient of normal ("black") tea: tea leaves, that is, the leaves from the tea shrub. In the case of black tea, the leaves are fermented; green tea is unfermented, or fermented less. But the leaves are the same.
green, red-brown, violet-pink respectively.
At night leaves still contain the green pigment chlorophyll, so they are still green. However, they may appear black in the absence of sunlight.