The spiky, iconic Canadian maple leaf. A large, lush Florida palm leaf. Thin aspen leaves rustling in the crisp Colorado air. You can probably recall many different leaf shapes from many different ...

Shape and symmetry help determine where a leaf lands — and if the tree it came from can recoup the leaf’s carbon as it decomposes.

Credit: Journal of The Royal Society Interface (2025). DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2024.0654 In watching leaves fall, it became clear to the researchers that the determining factor was leaf shape.To find ...

A cross between two distinct, true-breeding plants of Antirrhinum majus L. showed an unexpected pattern of inheritance of growth habit in the F2, which was extended to both growth habit and leaf ...