"Blue Ginkgo Tree" is just around the corner in November.the late and shortened autumn leaves

Plant a ginkgo tree, a flower horse, 'long life' while wishing his sick wife well.

Open for the month of October...Not even half of the autumn leaves are colored

The cause of the delayed autumn leaves is the heat wave and the late heat

Recently, all the autumn leaves on the highlands have fallen due to typhoon-like rain and wind.

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Fall foliage is colored exceptionally late this year.

The same goes for places that are widely known as autumn leaves spots.

The cause is the late heat that has been raging until this fall.

Reporter Hong Sung-wook covered it.

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It is a ginkgo tree forest in Hongcheon, Gangwon-do.

My husband prayed for his sick wife's recovery and planted 2,000 ginkgo trees whose flower words are "longevity."

A situation where tourists flocked every year as it spread as a famous maple spot,

What about this year?

At the end of October, but the forest is still holding on to summer.

November is just around the corner, but the foliage of the Hongcheon Ginkgo Forest here has just begun to turn red. It's nearly 10 days later than usual.

Yellow-colored leaves can be seen here and there, but the fresh green has not gone away.

It seems difficult to see the whole forest stained this month.

[Baek Mi-jeong / Yangcheon-gu, Seoul: I'm still sad that the autumn leaves haven't turned yellow yet, but when I came out here in Hongcheon, Gangwon-do, the air was good and the sun was good..]

The cause of the late autumn leaves is the late heat, which is in full swing until autumn.

The chlorophyll is destroyed and the leaves are stained only when the minimum temperature falls below 5℃, but the autumn leaves are delayed due to the maintenance of higher temperatures than usual.

This phenomenon is similar to the national maple attractions.

[Kim Donghak / National Arboretum forestry researcher: Autumn leaves occur only when the temperature drops, but the timing of the fall is being delayed compared to previous years, so the timing of autumn leaves is being delayed as well]

What about highlands over 1,000m above sea level?

Baekdudaegan Guryongryeong Peak, another maple spot.

The tree dropped all its leaves and began to get ready for winter.

It's a colony of maple trees. Originally, it should be full of red-colored autumn leaves at this time of year, but now it's all fallen off like this and turned into leaves.

The deep valley was relatively less affected by the heat wave, but all the autumn leaves fell due to the recent typhoon-like rain and wind.

It is also affecting the map of autumn and autumn leaves on the Korean Peninsula, which are getting shorter along with global warming.

I'm YTN's Hong Sung Wook.

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: Sung Do-hyun