• Not a newt@piefed.ca
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    3 days ago

    That’s from plants that get their air mostly from the shade and sunsets, so obviously they’d be less yellow and more dark and red.

    • CareHare@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      I know this is a joke, but to be fair: the scientific consensus (now) is that the purple pigmentation acts as a sort of sunscreen against too much sunlight.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      3 days ago

      they are more dark green if they a understory plant, or a shaded plant. there of course plants that have no chlorophyll whatsoever. 2 types, one is mostly albino plants where they lose all thier chlorophyll, the other is mycoheterotrophic plants(either partial or fully). ever seen a albino redwood, apparently it lives off being attached to the roots of the parent plant where it came from or from nearby trees.