This may be stupid- do leaves change color in Italy
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Olive trees are evergreen: the leaves just fall off without dramatic colour change.
Tuscany has few huge expanses of deciduous woodland, since so much of its countryside is used for agriculture. And what deciduous woodland there is, usually has quite a diverse range of trees.
They all go over at different rates, each species in a different way. So there isn't the huge red show of NE America (in fact, red is quite unusual in European autumn colour changes): there's a usually longer-lasting (because the winters are generally milder), more understated, variegated, process of change.
Tuscany has few huge expanses of deciduous woodland, since so much of its countryside is used for agriculture. And what deciduous woodland there is, usually has quite a diverse range of trees.
They all go over at different rates, each species in a different way. So there isn't the huge red show of NE America (in fact, red is quite unusual in European autumn colour changes): there's a usually longer-lasting (because the winters are generally milder), more understated, variegated, process of change.




