According to the Italian media milanotoday quoted by the Italian daily news agency, after the peak of the European heat wave this year, at the end of July, among the 350,000 trees in Turin, Italy, a small number of trees began to look like they were in autumn. withered”.
“They are plane trees,” explains the manager of the Alberta operation in the city of Turin. The department is responsible for monitoring the local tree “heritage”.
The plane tree is one of the most common trees in the city. Normally, plane trees start their leaves in small areas in September, but this year, they were at least a month earlier.
In the eyes of the city’s citizens, the streets are “covered with dead leaves” as in autumn.
The head of the city’s forestry bureau said, “They have been drying for a long time, and the constant heat has made the leaves lose their vitality. They are resilient plants, so we are not worried about them dying. But We will continue to monitor their health.”
Source: China News Network
