Is it plant or leaf other than green color doing photosynthesis? How?
Plants have classes of pigments that act as adjuncts to chlorophyll in several ways. Some are accessory pigments that broaden the range of absorbed light. They also alter the color of the leaf depending on what specific pigments the plant uses to gather light energy and what it reflects (green is the reflected light but is might be yellowish or bluish green). The major accessory class of pigments, the carotenoids, collect light in the red to yellow wavelengths chlorophyll a can’t, then the carotenoids transfer the energy to chlorophyll a to process. Another way a plant uses pigments is in chromoplasts (similar to chloroplasts, where chlorophyll is found, but not photosynthetic). These will be found in plants with red or copper leaf colors. A Copper Beech tree has anthocyanin, a pigment that reflects red. Thus the leaves of the copper beech, where the chromoplast’s red content overwhelms the chloroplast’s green, appear deep red in sunlight. However when you look at a copper beech in the
