I am just going to make a statement that sounds true (though I have nothing but empirical evidence to corroborate it). It seems that nature prefers green to be color for leaves for the majority of cases.
The preponderance of the color green in the plant kingdom begs the question as to what advantage does this color provide to the plants as far as absorption of energy from the sun is concerned. Clearly nature seems to have chosen this color, so there must be an evolutionary reason for it being so.
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The black-body radiation for a body the temperature of our sun reaches its maximum energy in the green spectrum. Odd, then, that common leaves are reflecting the most energy-rich colors in the spectrum.
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