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Susie
09-26-2006, 03:13 AM
Hi

Just saw on the news tonight that leaves do not fall off a tree they get pushed !


Aparently trees send a chemical to the stem of the leaves and this pushes the leaves so they fall off the tree.

They did a test and broke a twigg with leaves on before the chemical was sent bey the tree. The leaves on the twigg died but when put infront of a fan blowing at the dead leaves they did not drop off

I promise I have not lost my marbles I really did watch this on the news tonight. Did anyone else see the report?
Kriz1
09-26-2006, 01:59 PM
Sue...you don't talk about leaves falling off trees when you have people from New England on your forum...its a sore subject this time of year....:) :) :)
InnVic
09-26-2006, 03:10 PM
I always thought they jumped! Just hope they don't "get pushed" too much before the leaf peepers come!
Sharon
09-26-2006, 04:37 PM
Sue...you don't talk about leaves falling off trees when you have people from New England on your forum...its a sore subject this time of year....:) :) :)


Hi Kris

I saw the news and it is true.

The trees do send a chemical message to push the leaves off the trees. This is so when it snows the snow can fall through the branches otherwise the weight of the snow would damage the tree

For a minute. last night I thought it was 1st April !
Wendy
09-29-2006, 01:54 AM
reminds me of the BBC's spagetti trees - I can just remember - I was very young!
Susie
09-29-2006, 05:03 AM
reminds me of the BBC's spagetti trees - I can just remember - I was very young!


Sorry Wendy you have completley lost me,

What was this program all about?
Jax
09-29-2006, 08:54 PM
Hi
I think the spagetti trees were april fool way back i also was young
Jackie
Ron
11-26-2006, 02:49 PM
Reminds me of a chocolate teapot and elbow grease, makes you wonder how these saying start
Wendy
11-28-2006, 03:00 AM
Yep

spagetti tress were an April fool run by the BBC in the 1970's, it discribed the fate of poor spaggetti farmers who were starving after a failed harvest. It was described as the best / biggest April fool as many thousands tried to send money to the BBC disaster fund and hundreds phoned to volunteer to go to Italy to run relief stations!!!
Kriz1
11-28-2006, 03:23 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_tree