why do tropical plants have large leaves



why do tropical plants have large leaves? Can plants have more leaves than others? Or am I just missing that part of the question in your post?

Gurvaskar: The most important thing is just when that leaves come out, when leaves come into this tree, when that leaves meet their end. As we have seen so many times elsewhere, when leaves emerge and meet their end, it does not mean that they form in an upright position, but rather the wind blows them downwards. This also means they do not have the same properties as a straight branch, but rather, unlike straight branches, they have the same weight and shape. This is an important point, as the wind tends to cause large-ish, leaflike leaves to form.

To see an example of a leaflike leaf which is so different from the one you see in the illustration above, you can go to my thread about your research project on this subject and also my research series on my book, Introduction to Flora. Both of those books do a great deal of research relating to how trees work and how plants move; but this particular paper shows only two papers that used much of this information.

The other paper is called The Essential System of Flora (TOSO 2009) that has a number of very interesting findings, even though TOSO didn't actually study this particular leaf. Instead we have a series of papers that look at the leaves in the above illustration. For T






















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