what colors are leaves?

Question

what clolr are leaves

Answer 1

why dont u look out side there r loads of different colors.like red, orange, gree, and more.

Answer 2

Leaf color is dependand on pigments in the cells.

chlorophyll (green)
carotenoid (yellow, orange, and brown)
anthocyanins (red)
xanthophylls (yellow)

Chlorophyll is the most important of the three. Without the chlorophyll in leaves, plants wouldn't be able to use sunlight to produce food. These pigments are made and located inside organelles of cells called chloroplasts. However, since each pigment reacts with only a narrow range of the spectrum, there is usually a need to produce several kinds of pigments, each of a different color, to capture more of the sun's energy. Green pigments mask other colored pigments.




Carotenoid create bright yellows and oranges in familiar fruits and vegetables. Corn, carrots, and bananas are just a few of the many plants colored by carotenoid.

Anthocyanins add the color red to plants, including cranberries, red apples, cherries, strawberries and others.

In addition to pigmentation, there may be a second major component to leaf color, structural color. Leaves may appear lighter in color, i.e., gray, silver, white, blue, copper, or gold, so that the green is not easily observed. This modification of color is due primarily to structures formed on the leaf surface that increase reflectance. Either leaf surface may also be hidden or partially covered by plant hairs that are less reflective, darker, or pigmented.
Most silver or white color shifts are due to hairs (Examples: Santolina, saltbush, dusty miller)
Gray and blue hues of leaves (Examples: Atlas blue cedar, Aloe plicatilis, cabage) can be produced by the presence of thick wax on the leaf surface or also by the minute irregular contours of the outer cells. When a leaf appears bluish or gray (glaucous), rather than bright green, epicuticular wax is generally the cause. This can be demonstrated by rubbing the powdery wax from the surface to reveal the green leaf color beneath.

Plants produce pigments to advertise rewards for animals which pollinate flowers and disperse seeds. Thus, pigments have physiological and/or biological functions beyond photosynthesis.

Since prehistoric times, humans from across the globe have used plant pigments to enrich their lives. Historians and scientists believe that prehistoric animal skins and cave paintings dating back to 15,000 B.C. were dyed with plant pigments. They've discovered examples of early dyed fibers in Egypt dating to around 2000 B.C., and Chinese records revealing even earlier use of plants as fabric dyes. Ancient Britons, called Picts, used woad, a plant, to dye their bodies blue and frighten enemies in battle, while the British marched against the Americans in their well-known red coats dyed with madder root.

Answer 3

Spring time mostly green

Fall in New England , Red, Orange, yellow and brown

Answer 4

The green color is the chlorophyll. True color of the leaves are what you see in the fall.

Answer 5

What kind of question is that? Look outside.. Green, red, brown, purple, black sometimes, yellow

Answer 6

ok for #1 are you 2 years old!

Spring and Summer:green
winter:no leaves
fall:brown, red, orange, and yellow

Answer 7

it depends on
the health of the plant
the time of year
the normal color of the plant
the light
and
your perception

Answer 8

white

Answer 9

depends on the plant.

Answer 10

Depends what you are smoking?