Autumn colour, Fall color

The onion confused me too but was afraid to ask. Delightful explanation, thanks Fiona.

On cones, I think it is more to do with stress. I still get some on very mature and very short trimmed, well ramified branches. I notice that this is often in response to recent collection, a particularly hot summer or me neglecting to water to the point of wilting. Sometimes, with far too many trees,this can happen.

fiona wrote:So there you are - a typical lazy (i.e. long-winded) Sunday way of telling you that an ingin is of course an onion.

Of course it is, I knew that - my brain was too tired from being on-call too long over the weekend!
My mother is frae Findochty [ Finnechty], so Scots isn't quite foreign, but ....

Back to trees. As I mentioned, not much fall color around here, but this is a Corkbark Chinese Elm that has finally produced a little color.