marcescence

This species exhibits Marcescence (tends to hold on to a portion of its dried leaves through the winter).

Both genera are noted for marcescence, toughening and drying, rather than putrifying.

This process is called marcescence.

In some species only juveniles retain dead leaves and marcescence in palms is considered a primitive trait.

The only known traits are marcescence, indicating a juvenile stage, and flowering, indicating passage to adult stage.

Thus, evolution of short u.c.'s is a scale on which some traits expressing internal plant potentialities (marcescence, flowering) can be localized.

However, in young trees growing under a forest shadow, these markers are not visible since marcescence is not expressed and the trees are too young to flower.

A characteristic shared by a few other oak species, and also some beeches and hornbeams, is the retention of leaves through the winter on juvenile trees, a natural phenomenon referred to as marcescence.