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Leaves change colors during the fall season, making the fall foliage beautiful. This innate beauty, with no practical purpose other than to please humans, is one of the [[Counterexamples to Evolution]]. | Leaves change colors during the fall season, making the fall foliage beautiful. This innate beauty, with no practical purpose other than to please humans, is one of the [[Counterexamples to Evolution]]. | ||
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| + | In [[Ayurvedic medicine]] [[green]], which is a [[cold]]-[[cool]] [[color]], represents [[kapha]] ([[water]] and [[earth]] [[five elements|elements]]) [[dosha]] and [[plants]], [[herb]]s and [[leaf|leaves]]. Leaves are part of the kapha. | ||
| + | == See Also == | ||
*[[Walnut]] | *[[Walnut]] | ||
*[[Evergreen tree]] | *[[Evergreen tree]] | ||
*[[Lime]] | *[[Lime]] | ||
*[[Simple Leaf]] | *[[Simple Leaf]] | ||
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[[Category:Botany]] | [[Category:Botany]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Kapha]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Ayurvedic Herbal Medicine]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Western Herbal Medicine]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Plants]] | ||
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A leaf is the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in plants. Leaves possess many shapes, sizes, functions and manners of being. Leaves of most woody trees and bushes consist of a flat blade connected to the woody stem or twig via a slender, stick-like petiole. The blade and the petiole make up the leaf. Hundreds, even thousands, of leaflets can occur in a single compound leaf. A poison ivy leaf consists of three leaflets. Most but not all leaves, even compound leaves, are shaped in such a way that they more or less display bilateral symmetry.
Leaves change colors during the fall season, making the fall foliage beautiful. This innate beauty, with no practical purpose other than to please humans, is one of the Counterexamples to Evolution.
Leaves in Ayurvedic Medicine
In Ayurvedic medicine green, which is a cold-cool color, represents kapha (water and earth elements) dosha and plants, herbs and leaves. Leaves are part of the kapha.