Can tres live without leaves?
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Of course, many trees shed their leaves in the fall and winter, but the tree is still living....
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The leaves on any tree/plant work mainly as the energy center to enhance the food supply of the plant.  Photosynthesis is the primary action within the leaves, not the storage of water.  The roots, and the trunk of the tree maintain the water.\n\nSo when a tree looses it's leaves it simply maintains it's primary surface, ie trunk and branches, by storing the water within the lower roots, and within the innermost section of the trunk.
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no ... bamboo is classed as a GRASS, not a tree. Deciduous trees loose their leaves in autumn/fall.
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none, nil, nada, zip\n\nalcohol dehydrates and plants need water to grow.
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They are not in the family of trees as the don't have trunk. Their trunk is made of leaves... Do u read TOI's Repliyes Believe it or not. the answer appeared in it...
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None.It grows that way.On trees of course.lol
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twigs usually have water. Its possible to dry them out.\n\nRocks can be porous enough to trap water inside them.
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No leaves = no photosynthesis.  No photosynthesis, no growth.
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Plants are deciduous as a way of avoiding stress imposed via their leaves.\n\nBy shedding their leaves they don't lose water from them at times when they ground is dry. That is important because most of the water a plant loses is via the leaves. In cold regions when the amount of free water in the soil becomes virtually nil in winter because ice can't move through soil the way that liquid water can. In tropical regions plants are commonly deciduous to cope with seasonal drought conditions. But in both cases being deciduous  reduces water loss and prevents dehydration.\n\nThe deciduous condition is also advantageous in that in enables plants to avoid damage to the leaves. Leaves have tendency of freezing in cold conditions and wilting in dry conditions. Both those processes can damage the leaf severely. If that damage is going to occur anyway it makes more sense to suck the nutrients out of the leaf while it is still healthy and shed the leaf. then those nutrients can be used to build new leaves when the conditions are more tolerable and less likely to cause damage.\n\nA third advantage of being deciduous is that it reduces snow and ice build up. In cold wet conditions broad leaves are a perfect surface for snow and ice to accumulate, eventually producing so much weight that the branch breaks. That damages the tree and can kill it. Better to shed the leaves than lose the entire branch.\n\nA fourth advantage is competitive. A plant that isn't deciduous when all the other trees are is a major target for leaf eating animals, especially mammals. If a  single oak tree didn't shed its leaves in winter it would be targeted by every deer for miles around and very likely chewed to death. So plants have to be deciduous if all other plants in the area are.\n\nThe biggest disadvantage of being deciduous is that it's expensive. Plants put a lot of energy into growing leaves, and they can't get all that energy back. When the leaves are shed that energy is lost. A plant that can maintain its leaves will have a major energetic advantage over a deciduous tree, and will be making more effective use of resources.\n\nThe second disadvantage is timing. An evergreen tree can begin goring again as soon as conditions are right. As a result in temperate areas pines will normally start growing in Indian summer and that gives them a major head start over deciduous trees. And when later frosts come they simply stop growing again. In contrast evergreens can't even begin to start growing until spring proper. If they tried to take advantage of Indian summer to start growing their new leaves would all be wiped out by subsequent frosts. Similarly deciduous plants have t shed their leaves in mid autumn or risk getting damaged by an early frost. Evergreens can keep growing in many areas until mid-winter As a result evergreens have a much longer growing season than deciduous plants.\n\nRocketman said:>>>Evergreens can generally withstand drought\n\nThis is total nonsense. Most of the world's evergreens are rainforest species and have almost no drought tolerance.\n\n\n>>>photosynthate over a longer period of time, albeit slower\n\nAgain, absolute nonsense. Rainforest evergreens photosynthesise far faster than any other trees on the planet. The fact that he doesn't understand the difference between 'photosynthesise" and "photosynthate" is not a good sign.\n\nThe rest of his answer is equally incorrect.
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Obviouthly thomeone without a lithp.
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Absolutely correct. The compounds in the Leaves are food for the brain. You are not borne with all the knowledge in the world and life is too short to learn from your mistakes, you must learn from others and one of them is what to consume in order to bring health and well being to the body that you inhabit.
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one way, which you can practive at home, but takes a very long time... dry the leaf.  get pure alcohol, something you can take internally, not isopropyl or rubbing.  soak the leaves in the alcohol for a long time (weeks-2), the longer the better.  the alcohol extracts the medicinal properties from the plant.  now you have a tincture.  30 drops when done properly is an alternative medicine industry standard.
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i don't believe you can extract cholorophyl from leaves without damaging the leaves
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Reproductive system we can live without entirely.\n\nMost other systems we need but can do without bits of:\n\neg. Neurology: we can live without vision, hearing, smell, taste
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Watersprouts do not contribute to the overall health of trees and should be removed annually.  The best time to remove them in a tropical area would be after harvesting, but I do not think removing before harvesting would have any real negative effect.
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add water, keep in a moist environment, under a shade away from the sun
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Nettles (itch weed) and catnip have leaves have leaves that sort of looks like that...and with catnip, it is sort of a kitty narcotic.