The trees will soon be bare.

To lay her cards on the table.

Semi deciduous is a botanical term which refers to plants that lose their foliage for a very short period, when old leaves fall off and new foliage growth is starting.

These trees shed their leaves during the winter.

On a leafless tree

Other plants are semi evergreen and lose their leaves before the next growing season, retaining some during winter or dry periods.

Poor little flower. Dropped her petals and folded her tent.

Far more worrying is an issue that is yet to play out.

Nearly one thousand species of plants with edible leaves are known.

As a result, its stock market is frothy, and it is experiencing an alarming property boom.

And you come home, and you discover that 80 percent of all the trees in North America and in Europe have dropped their leaves.

The G Zero world is not all bad for the US if it plays its cards right.

But even large and stable countries such as Britain and the US are finding auctions of government paper increasingly problematic.

In areas with a marked dry season, it sheds its leaves during the drought, but in other areas it is virtually evergreen.

Staying on the sidelines of this Arab Western coalition, Israel is playing its cards close to its chest.

When a tree's done using its leaves its solar collectors, these amazing molecular photon capturing devices at the end of a season, it doesn't pack them up, take them to the leaf reprocessing center and have them melted down to form new leaves.

Those of temperate regions lose their leaves every autumn as temperatures fall and are dormant in the winter, but those of tropical regions may shed their leaves in response to seasonal or sporadic periods of drought.

In short, the geopolitical cards could turn out in Japan s favor if China overplays its hand.

But rather, it is their leaves that are adapted to intercept the dissolved nutrients that come to them in the form of mist and fog.

Finally, if the US government cannot safeguard the value its securities, it should compensate China in one way or another.

Given the stakes, it is perhaps understandable why the US and China are holding their climate change cards close to their chests.

Some mimosas raise their leaves in day and lower them at night, and experiments done by Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan on mimosas in 1729 provided the first evidence of biological clocks.

The name stems from the fact that A. altissima is one of the last trees to come out of dormancy, and as such its leaves coming out would indicate that winter was truly over.

Well, all land plants lose water when the pores on their leaves open up during photosynthesis, and this evaporation draws more water up through their stems.

Leafy liverworts also differ from most (but not all) mosses in that their leaves never have a costa (present in many mosses) and may bear marginal cilia (very rare in mosses).

The upshot is that Greece is back where it started in the poker contest with Germany and Europe. The new government has shown its best cards too early and has no credibility left if it wants to try bluffing.

If Greece had defaulted, not only would Portugal, Spain, and other weaker eurozone economies have been threatened, but Europe would have faced a run on its securities.

When a tree's done using its leaves its solar collectors, these amazing molecular photon capturing devices at the end of a season, it doesn't pack them up, take them to the leaf reprocessing center and have them melted down to form new leaves.

To try and give you a sense of this, imagine you go camping in July somewhere in Europe or in North America, and you wake up the next morning, and you look around you, and you see that 80 percent of the trees, as far as you can see, have dropped their leaves and are standing there naked.

Moreover, if Japan needs allies to balance the rise of China, it could easily turn not only to the US, but also to Russia and India. In short, the geopolitical cards could turn out in Japan s favor if China overplays its hand.