How do evergreens stay green all winter?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Lots of trees shed their leaves to prepare for chilly winter temperatures – but not all of them. Evergreen trees, like pines and spruces, keep their needles throughout the winter. So how do they do it? We asked science communicator and plant expert Brandi Cannon-Force to help us find the answer. Have a question that’s really needling you? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll help find a tree-mendous answer! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.
0:05.3	Answering those questions that make you go.
0:22.3	Moment of um comes to, um, mhm.
0:24.3	Memm of um comes to you from APM Studios.
0:26.4	I'm Quilliam, the Porcupine.
0:28.0	Um.
0:30.6	You can call me cool for short.
0:31.5	Everybody does.
0:34.2	I live way up north on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula.
0:38.3	It gets pretty chilly up here in the winter, but unlike bears and some other mammals, I don't hibernate.
0:39.3	I just slow my roll, chillax, keep calm, and wattle on.
0:43.3	Moving slowly helps me save energy when it gets Chile.
0:46.3	Oh, and my other secret for surviving the winter,
0:49.3	I sing a lot of show tunes, like a lot.
0:52.3	Prickly, all alone in the moonlight.
0:58.2	I could have waddled all night.
1:00.9	I could have waddled all night.
1:03.1	Or, you know, my name is Alexander Porcupine.
1:06.8	Just you hate!
1:08.9	I just have to go find a tree to go climb up in so I could really project my singing voice.
1:13.6	Oh, what about this one?
1:14.6	A gorgeous black spruce.
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