ABC WEDNESDAY: Xanthophyll

xanthophyll brings change

during my fav’rite season-

exquisite autumn!

joining others 

at ABC WEDNESDAY 

created by Mrs. Nesbitt

maintained by the ever faithful Roger

and hosted this week by Joy

Information found at- http://en.mimi.hu/biology/xanthophyll.html

Xanthophyll (originally phylloxanthin) is the yellow pigment found in the leaves of most plants.  It is involved in photosynthesis along with green chlorophyll, which typically covers up the yellow except in autumn.

Hoosier Quote:

“No town can fail of beauty, 

though its walks be gutters and its houses hovels, 

if venerable trees make a magnificent colonnade along its streets.”

~Henry Ward Beecher~