NEB&W Guide to Scenery - Foliage

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Last Update: 2009-02-25

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Deciduous Trees

"Deciduous" comes from Latin, meaning "fall down". The same root give us "decide" which meant cutting away the alternatives (I'm not making this up), and also "cement", "chisel", "concise", "excise", "incision", "precise", and "scissors".

I used to wonder why deciduous trees shed their leaves in autumn, and then had to grow them back in the spring. Then about a decade ago we

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