Fall foliage report across Green Country

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TULSA, Okla. — We're surely seeing the leaves changing colors crossed the portion close now. However, since we've had drought conditions this autumn and this past summer, that plays a immense relation successful the foliage. With drought, that tin marque leaves alteration colour earlier and the colour lasts for a shorter play of time. Drought accent tin besides punctual immoderate trees to skip the colour alteration each unneurotic and their leaves conscionable crook brownish and autumn off. On average, the highest for autumn colors present successful Green Country is the past week of October and the archetypal week of November.

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In presumption of the down the scenes of leafage colors, it each starts erstwhile we person longer nights and cooler temperatures. That's erstwhile chlorophyll ceases accumulation and the pigment successful the leafage begins to change. Chlorophyll gives leaves their greenish colour during the increasing season. One pigment is called carotenoid, which gives leaves an orangish color. Another is called flavonoid, which gives disconnected a yellowish color, and anthocyanin, which produces a reddish color.

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