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🍁 The Science of Falling Leaves

Research meets Entertainment · Le Foin® Lab

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🍂 Every autumn, millions of leaves drift quietly to the ground.

Most people think the wind makes them fall.

It doesn’t.

🌿 Long before a leaf begins its graceful descent, the tree has already made the decision.

Hidden where the leaf stem meets the branch, a microscopic abscission layer slowly forms. As daylight shortens and temperatures drop, the tree changes its hormone balance. Connections that once carried water and nutrients begin to seal.

The leaf is no longer part of the tree’s active network.

💨 When the process is complete, even the gentlest breeze is enough.

The wind doesn’t make the leaf fall.

It simply reveals a decision that was made weeks earlier.