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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).
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Reference: 22 April 2005, p. 11
by Steve Hepburn
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