Autumn gold
Larch gold
Larch trees are among our most beautiful and beautifully strange evergreens. Actually, that last name—evergreen, which is what we tend to call all the trees with needles instead of leaves—is a genuine misnomer, since Larix laricina drops its tufts of short needles every autumn, just like a proper hardwood. The Larch, which also goes by the common name of Tamarack, puts on a hardwood-esque fall-color-show, too, turning from green to this lovely shade of gold. It's one of the last trees to make the change, and when the Larch begins taking to heart that famous Robert Frost line about nothing gold being able to stay, well, you know that winter, real winter, is close at hand.
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