ELI5 How Can Trees and Other Plants Live Without Leaves…
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ELI5 How Can Trees and Other Plants Live Without Leaves?
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Our yard is always swarmed my maples getting into the garden and flower beds etc. Every year we try to get rid of them by cutting off all the branches. Leaves supply the CO2 and the photons required for photosynthesis, without the ability to convert air into sugars shouldn't the plant die as it runs out of energy? I know that near the end of summer trees store all their sugars in the base of the tree to survive the winter, but we do this in early summer yet every year the trees keep coming back. If you were to remove a person's lungs they wouldn't survive past 90 seconds, so I don't understand how it's possible for trees/plants.
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Our yard is always swarmed my maples getting into the garden and flower beds etc. Every year we try to get rid of them by cutting off all the branches. Leaves supply the CO2 and the photons required for photosynthesis, without the ability to convert air into sugars shouldn't the plant die as it runs out of energy? I know that near the end of summer trees store all their sugars in the base of the tree to survive the winter, but we do this in early summer yet every year the trees keep coming back. If you were to remove a person's lungs they wouldn't survive past 90 seconds, so I don't understand how it's possible for trees/plants.
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