What is the correct colour of the green leaf if the green leaf doesn't have chlorophyll?

Question

Does it possible for photosynthesis to occur if th green leaf doesn't have chlorophyll?

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Answer 1

i think it will turn whatever color it does in the fall, cause in the fall the process to create chlorophyll shuts down for the winter and without the chlorophyll the leave loses its green color, so whatever color it changes to would be its "normal" color.   Just a guess though!  lol

Answer 2

If there never was chlorophyll, there never was photosynthesis and it isn't a leaf from a plant.

If there WAS chlorophyll but it but was broken down, the leaf will turn a sickly yellow.

There are different colors of chlorophyll, but that's not what you asked.

Answer 3

If it is a green leaf, then the only correct color would be green.  Any other color would be incorrect.

Answer 4

Plant have the green pigment chlorophyil which capture light and helps plant make food through a process known as photosynthesis.

Brown and red color leaves also have chlorophyll, they mask it with other pigments.

Only dried up plant leaves do not have chlorophyll.

Answer 5

It would be reddish orange.  The second most abundant photosynthetic pigment are carotenoids (which are orange/red).  Carotenoids are fully capable of carrying out the photosynthetic process, just not as well as chlorophyll.

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Jay H is correct.  In fall, chlorophyll is first pigment to be broken down and resorped by the plant (resorption is the process of breaking down photosynthetic pigments to scavenge the nutrients in preparation for dormancy).  In fall the leaves turn from green to red to yellow to brown.  This gradient reflects the breakdown of the most dominant photosynthetic pigments to the least (lignin is brown and not photosynthetic -- it acts as structure for leaf and is low in nutritious value.  This is why dead, fallen leaves are brown -- we only see light reflecting off of the lignin).