Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site siemens.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!eosp1!siemens!mik From: mik@siemens.UUCP (Michael Rissman) Newsgroups: net.garden Subject: Leaves on oak trees Message-ID: <171@siemens.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Mar-84 17:03:43 EST Article-I.D.: siemens.171 Posted: Fri Mar 16 17:03:43 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Mar-84 04:06:05 EST Organization: Siemens RTL Princeton, NJ Lines: 3 Oak trees do not shed their leaves until the Spring. What is the reason oaks evolved that behavior? How does shedding in the Spring, or not shedding in the Fall, benefit an individual oak?