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How Trees Fall Apart

Andy Kong
2 min readJan 1, 2022

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Hello!

You only get to experience 1 fall a year, and by the time you read this you’re probably older than 15. This means you probably have only 65 falls left in you — remember to do your best to enjoy each one.

Anyway, this particular fall I took more of a look at the trees around me. I noticed that the green-yellow-red transition of leaves followed different patterns for different trees, and took photos of all the ones I could. Here follows the decay patterns of 4 different trees.

1. Top-down

The decay here happens from the highest leaves to the lowest.

2. Bottom-up

Reverse of the above trees, and pretty rare. I only found one

3. Inside-out

Core leaves brown completely while the outer ones are still green

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Andy Kong
Andy Kong

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