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Autumn colours, Central Otago

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Autumn colours, Central Otago

Deciduous trees from the northern hemisphere develop intense leaf colours in Central Otago’s cold dry autumns. These poplars (golden orange), at Butchers Dam, south of Alexandra, have started losing their green colour before the willows (light green – centre).

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 22 April 2005, p. 11

by Steve Hepburn

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Maggy Wassilieff, Trees in the rural landscape – Ornamental plantings, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/19710/autumn-colours-central-otago (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.