Join Dr. Gwen, botanist, to learn about basic tree identification (based on branching patterns and leaf shape) and the mechanisms behind the science of autumn. We will discuss the reason for the appearance of leaf color in the fall. Bring your questions about trees and your walking shoes as we will, weather permitting, walk a small section of the Green.

Gwen will have colorful leaf samples on display and can lend binoculars of all sizes for us to peer into the tree canopy. Learn the MAD Cap acronym and identification (an easy-to-remember summary from college botany classes.)

Then we’ll head back indoors to the community room to each create our own colorful autumnal educational leaf sheet with preserved, identified and labelled leaves (provided). In a botanical library, or herbarium, dried pressed plants are organized and labelled, like books in a library, and we’ll go home with our own herbarium sheets.

This is a multigenerational program, and all ages are welcome. 

One sheet per person.

Please meet in the community room at Jonathan Trumbull Library at 3:30 PM.