Other lobes are palmate, which means that they radiate from a single point (and resemble a set of fingers and the palm of a hand). The number of projections on a single leaf varies from species to ...

Two physicists from the Technical University of Denmark have found that leaf shape is a determining factor in the distance ...

Shape and symmetry help determine where a leaf lands — and if the tree it came from can recoup the leaf’s carbon as it decomposes.

Scientists made fake leaves and dropped them in water tanks to observe how different shapes move as they sink.

The major maples have leaves divided into three to five lobes, each less than four inches in size and with an opposite leaf arrangement. Other trees with "maple-like" leaves—the sycamore ...

One way to distinguish between Norway (acer platanoides), sugar (acer saccharum), and black (acer nigrum) maples is to count ...

A decade ago, a paper came out saying that B. trifoliolata can change its lobed or rounded leaf shape to mimic the leaf shape of other plants. Those authors speculated it was due to chemicals or ...