{"id":1685,"date":"2022-01-29T19:11:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T19:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2022-01-29T19:11:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T19:11:09","slug":"why-are-leaves-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/?p=1685","title":{"rendered":"Why are leaves green?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/qph.fs.quoracdn.net\/main-qimg-10a30bd085683890030e233da2f23223-lq\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Leaves are green due to&nbsp;<strong>the presence of a green coloured pigment called chlorophyll<\/strong>. the main function of chlorophyll is to perform photosynthesis in the presence of sunlight. Chlorophyll is located in a plant&#8217;s chloroplasts, which are tiny structures in a plant&#8217;s cells.&nbsp;<strong>Chlorophyll<\/strong>&nbsp;gives plants their green color because it does not absorb the green wavelengths of white light. That particular light wavelength is reflected from the plant, so it appears green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/qph.fs.quoracdn.net\/main-qimg-10a30bd085683890030e233da2f23223-lq\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaves are green due to&nbsp;the presence of a green coloured pigment called chlorophyll. the main function of chlorophyll is to perform photosynthesis in the presence of sunlight. Chlorophyll is located in a plant&#8217;s chloroplasts, which are tiny structures in a plant&#8217;s cells.&nbsp;Chlorophyll&nbsp;gives plants their green color because it does not absorb the green wavelengths of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1686,"href":"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laserphotonics.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}