According to Nancy Gray, a park ranger at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, more than 1.2 million people visited the 800-square-mile sylvan paradise in the southern Appalachians in October 2000, ...

Identify the fall foliage you're viewing from the color of the leaves. Skip to Article. ... gray dogwood, bitternut hickory, ironweed, red maple, sugar maple, chestnut oak, sassafras, sycamore and ...

In the South, where the winters are mild, some of the broad-leaved trees are evergreen; that is, the leaves stay on the trees during winter and keep their green color. Only Some Trees Lose Leaves Most ...

Watch Leaves Change Color in a Matter of Seconds A new time-lapse video of over 6,000 leaf photos reveals the biology behind fall foliage. Emily Toomey. August 14, 2019. Get our newsletter!

The fall equinox (also known as the autumnal equinox) took place Sept. 21. It is officially fall and it’s the time of year when we are awed by the color and beauty of trees in our neighborhood ...

Why Leaves Change Color in the Fall. 2 minute read. Getty Images. By Samantha Grossman. September 23, 2014 7:00 AM EDT.

“The color of a leaf is subtractive, like crayons on a piece of paper,” says David Lee, formerly of Florida International University, who has studied leaf color since 1973.

Gray leaf spot is also active in the lower canopy at multiple sites across the state. The lesions are light tan in color and generally narrow and rectangular, and can be as long as 2 inches. As the ...

It is a large tree – up to 60 feet tall or more, with an upright oval crown and platey gray bark. When it comes to fall color, there’s not much that can top this native.

Red maple tree with leaves turning red in fall. Photo by: Lenny Farlee The calendar flipping over to October is a reminder the annual Autumn leaf color display is on its way. The perennial question is ...

Leaf colors are looking their best in Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset and Union counties, along with parts of Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May and Ocean counties, the forest service is reporting.