Tree, Two-Tone

Posted on October 6, 2013 by mikethemadbiologist

Observed in Boston’s Public Garden:

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1 Response to Tree, Two-Tone

  1. Jim Thomerson says:
    October 6, 2013 at 1:50 pm

    That is interesting. I have seen a similar phenomenon in a tree by a streetlight. The leaves by the streetlight were still green, while the leaves away from the streetlight had turned color. Maybe what you have there is expression of a somatic mutation, not uncommon in plants.

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