See, leaf senescence is like the plant's careful shutdown—it reclaims nutrients from the leaves before letting them go. The green chlorophyll breaks down, and hidden yellows and oranges finally show. They fall so the tree can survive the dry winter here, not just the cold.
But in Delhi, half these leaves don't even get to change colour properly. The pollution and dust coat them grey, and they just crisp up and drop early. My neem tree outside the hostel looks tired by October itself—it’s not autumn, it’s just exhaustion.
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